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VOLUME  XVI.,  188S. 


PUBLISHED  FOR   THE  SOCIETY, 

Mott    Memorial    Hall,    No.    64    .Madison    Avenue^ 

New  York  City. 


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SAMUEL    S.    PURPLE,  JOHN    J.    LATTING, 

CHARLES    B.    MOORE,  JAMES    GRANT    WILSON, 

HENRY    R.    STILES, 

Matt  Memorial  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue. 


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INDEX  TO    SUBJECTS. 


Ancestry  of  Ann  Campbell,  wife  of  Hon.  John  Stevens,  6. 
Anniversary  Address  before  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographic 

ruary  27,  1885,  40. 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  43. 
Arms  of  the  State  of  New  York   and   How  They  have  been  Altered,  by  Rev.  Beverley 

Betts,  145. 

Baptisms  in  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of  New  York  City,  32.  S~,  115. 
Baptisms  in  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  of  New  York  City,  13S. 
Bayard,  Col.  John,  173S-1S07,  Genl.  Wilson's  Address  on,  49;   Descendants  of,  70. 

Peek!     ■  ,  G     rg'e  C,  P.         \    Y1.    Ecel LFamiiv  of  New  York' ancENew  Jersey,  133. 

"  "  Genealogical  Record  of  the  Ten  Broeck  Family,  153. 

Betts,  "William,  EL.  D.,  Memoir  of,  by  William  A.  Jones,  1. 
Betts,  Rev.  Beverley  R.,  on  the  Arms  of  the  State  of  New  York,  145. 
Brookhaven,  L.  E,  Epitaphs,  by  William  Kelby,  131. 

Campbell,  Ann,  The  Ancestry  of,  by  R.  F.  Stevens,  6. 
Crawford  Family,  Genealogy  of,  by  Charles  B.  Moore,  113, 

Descendants  of  Col,  John  Bayard,  by  Genl.  James  Grant  Wilson,  70. 
Dwight,  Rev,  Benjamin  W.,  en  the  Rogers  Lineage,  10.  72,  157. 

Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  by  G.  IE  Yan  Wagenen,  25. 
Elting  Family,  by  G.  II.  Yan  Wagenen,  25. 

Fassau  Family  Record,  by  Charles  W.  Baird,  41. 

Genealogy  of  the  Rogers  Family,  by  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  10,  72.  157. 

"  of  the  Bayard  Family,  by  Gen!.  James  Grant  Wilson,  70. 

*  of  the  Eking  Family,  by  G.  H.  Van  Wagenen,  25, 

(i  of  the  Crawford  Family  of  Orange  Co.,  N.  Y.,  113. 

"  of  the  Beekman  Family  of  New  Jersey,  by  George  C.  Beekman,  Esq.,   153. 

"  of  the  Ten  Broeck  Family,  by  George  C.  Beekman,  133. 

Gravesend  (L.  E),  Oid  and  New,  by  Rev.  A.  P.  Stockwell,  97. 

icks,  Benjamin  D.,  Esq,,  his  Copy  of  the  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  West- 
bury,  L.  E,  171. 

Inscriptions  from  Tombstones  in  a  Cemetery  at  Rye,  N.  Y.,  by  William  Kelby,  137. 

Jones,  Wm.  A.,  Memoir  of  William  Betts,  LL.D.,  1. 

Kelby,  William,  Copy  of  Brookhaven  (L.  I.)  Epitaphs,  131. 

Lawrence  Family,  by  Edwin  Salter,  141,  1S5. 

Marriages  in  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  in  New  Yoik,  40,  S6,  114. 

il         in  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York  City,  123. 
Memoir  of  William  Betts,  LL.D.,  by  William  Alfred  Jones,  A.M.,   I. 
Moore,  Charles  B.,  Genealogy  of  the  Crawford  Family,  113. 


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IV  Index  io  Subjects. 

New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  Annual  Meeting  of,  43. 

Notes  and  Queries.  —  Annual  Address,  43;  Bogert  Family,  45;  Carpenter,  43;  Chaffee 
Family,  184;  Cornell,  1S4;  Early  Settlers  of  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.,  141; 
Eliot  Family,  184;  Estabrook  Family,  1S4  ;  Feke,  [42;  Fitch-Rogers,  43; 
Gracie-Gesner,  95;  Gracie  and  Mann  Family,  184;  Harencarspcl,  143;  Hin- 
man's  Manuscripts,  1S5  ;  Jones,  of  Surrey,  Eng.,  44;  Lawrence,  141;  Lawrence 
Wills,  185;  Lyon  Family,  1S5  ;  Mandeville  Family  Data,  95,  143;  Mol,  143, 
1S5  ;  Ogilvie,  44;  Rhode  Island  Genealogical  Dictionary,  1 S 5  ;  Riker.  185  ;  Rob- 
inson, 95  ;  Seaman  Powell,  95  ;  Sharpless  Genealogy,  1S6  ;  Spratt  Family,  44; 
Stiles  Family.  1S6;    Williams,  rS6;   Willis,  44,  [86. 

Notes  on  Books. — Genealogy  of  the  Van  Wagenen  Family,  45;  A  Genealogical  Memoir 
of  the  Lathrop  Family,  45;  History  of  the  Ancient  Ryedales  and  their  Descend- 
ants, 96;  Diary  of  David  Ginsberger,  by  Eugene  F.  Bliss,  186;  Biographical 
Sketches  of  the  Graduates  of  Vale  College,  wit})  Annals  (4"  the  College  History, 
18/  ;  Biography  of  a  Pioneer  Manufacturer — Zenal  Crane,  1S7  ;  Genealogy  of  the 
De  Veaux  Family,  by  Col.  Thomas  F.  De  Voe,  1S7  :  Descendants  of  Peter  Wil- 
lems  Roome,  by  Peter  R.  Warner,  iSS  ;  Seventeen  Pedigrees  from  "  Family 
Memorials,"  by  Edward  E.  Salisbury,  iSS  ;  Life  and  Public  Services  of  Gen. 
Ulysses  S.  Grant,  by  Gen.  Tames  Grant  Wilson,  iSS  ;  Catalogue  of  the  Library 
of  the  State  Historical  Library  of  Wisconsin,  vol.  vi. ,  by  Daniel  S.  Durrie,  18S. 

Obituary. — Armstrong,  47  ;  Bechthold,  47;  Churchill,  143;  Dwight,  96;  Greene,  4S ; 
Preble,  143. 

Records  of  the  Hutch  Cbnrch  in  New  York  City,  32.  87,  115.  123. 

"        of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Church  in  New  York  City,  40,  S.6,  13S. 

"        of  the  Society  of  Friends,  of  Westbury,  L.  L,  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  171. 

"        of  the  Fassau  Family,  by  Charles  W.  Baird,  41. 

"        of  the  Ten  Broeck  Family  of  New  Jersey,  156. 
Rogers  Lineage,  by  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  io,  72,   157, 

Stevens,  R.  F.,  The  Ancestry  of  Ann  Campbell,  etc.,  6. 

Stockwell,  P.ev.  A.  P.,  Address  on  Old  and  New  Gravesend,  L.  L,  97. 

Ten  Broeck  Family,  Genealogical  Record  of,  by  George  C.  Beekman,  153. 

Van  Wagenen,  G.  H.,  on  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  25. 

"  "  t;         on  Inscriptions  from  Tombstones  at  Rye,  N.  Y.,  135. 

Westbury,  L.  I..  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of,  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq.,  171. 
Wilson,  Gen;  James  Grant,  Address  on  Colonel  John  Bayard,  49. 


THE   NEW   YORK 

(jinualofiical  ano  Siwa#tal  Hum 


Vol,   XVI.  NEW  YORK,    JANUARY,    1885. 


MEMOIR    OF  WILLIAM    BETTS,    LL.D. 


By  William  Alfred  Tones,  A.M. 


.^...~  _....;.  the  New   1  ark  Genealogical  5   riety,  December  ir.  :: :^  ] 

William  Betts,  the  third  and  snly  surviving  son  of  Samuel  and  Susan- 
nah Bens,  was  born  at  Becksgrove  (the  name  of  a]  aternal  estate),  on  the 
Island  of  Santa  Cruz,  in  the  We  >t  Indies,  January  28,  i::2, 

His  fatKer,  Samuel  Betts,  c  E  N :  vt : wn,  N.  Y.,  a  men  t  er  of  an  Id  and 
highly  respectable  "  ng  Island  family,  was  a  descendant  of  Ri  ard  Betts, 
one  of  the  seven  patentee  f  that  town  see  "  Biker's  An  ilsof^N 
p.  5:7'.  bom  April  29.  1764  (about  eleven  years  before  the  war),  who  had 
removed  to  the  Danish  Island,  about  17  an<  married  there,  in  1796, 
Susannah,  daughter  and  co-hcire^s  of  Manning  1  ake3  )f  Becksgrove,  b)  his 
intermarriage  with  Mary,   lau    hterofWiilia   -  Zi   ty,  Governor  of  AngiiitiaJ1 

The  subject  of  this  notice,  bom  abroad,  was  ...  to  Jai  aica,  L.  I.,  to 
school  at  a  very  early  age  mine  or  ten  years).  Coming  in  f  p.  hboo*  to  this 
country  and  passing  his  long  life  here  in  peace  and  prosperity  .  .  .  .-  an  I 
beloved.  Mr.  Betts  became  as  truly  America  .  as  Hamilton  .  use  .1  who 
was  also  a  native  of  Santa  Cruz,  and  whe  was  sent,  a  mere  youth,  to  New 
York,  and  was  educated  at  Kings,  now  Columbia  Cohere.  Of  that  i  istitu- 
tion  he  and  Dewitt  Clinton  were  afterward  perhaps  the  most  distinguished 
graduates.  John  Jay,  Robert  R.  Livingston,  and  Philip  Livingston  were 
earlier. 

The  young  student,  William  Betts,  was  prepared  for  college  at  Union 
Hall  Academy  by  Lewis  E.  A.  Eigenbrodt.  In  1816  he  entered  Union 
College.  Schenectady,  in  its  early  cays,  but  finding  it  remote,  and  not 
being  satisned  with  his  progress,  he  applied  for  admission  to  the  next 
sophomore  class  in  Columbia  College,  in  the  spring  of  1S17.  An  obstacle 
to  this  project  was  presented  by  me  then  president,  the  ver  able  and 
::  lly    '  ;  aternal ':  Dr.  Harris,  who  tola  him  it  1  be  impossible  for  hii  ] 

*  His  mother  was  a  :   r :    I     '         ]  rence,  of  Newtown    Record,  vol.  i  - :         hia 

gi       linothei        ;     f  the  I         :'  .     ~  .  ■       i      -  .  .-   •  g   .  .  ■  - .--  .  thea     r  the  H     let  -.::.=■ 

many  relatives  of  these  se  _  -  :  •  ...  of  Ne  t  may  be 

1       -  .  •      t  the  i  tants  of  Newtown  generally  supported  C      _  a  the  Revolutionary  War,  though 

ther  I      qs  d :.      £      a  Cruz  was  neutraL— Eds. 


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2  Memoir  of  William  Bells,  LL.D.  [Jan-> 

to  enter  at  the  studies  (the  curriculum)  of  Columbia  College,  which  were, 
at  that  time  (as  indeed  they  continued  till  within  the  past  twenty  years),  a 
year  in  advance  of  any  oilier  American  College.  Thereupon  he  read 
diligently  dining  the  summer  and  entered  the  sophomore  class  in  the 
autumn  of  the  same  year,  graduating  in  1S20.  From  the  beginning  an 
earnest  and  attentive  student,  he  matured  into  a  scholar,  "a  ripe  and  good 
one,"  not  only  learned  in  his  profession,  but  a  classical  scholar  of  taste 
and  superior  acquirements,  and  a  wide  and  judicious  reader,  not  only  of 
law,  but  of  history,  literature,  and  philosophy,  well  informed  in  theology, 
aid  in  other  departments  of  inquiry  and  speculation;  from  the  outset  to 
the  end  of  his  career  an  honor  to  his  College  and  to  the  city  of  his 
adoption.* 

The  vacancy  he  has  left  in  the  Board  of  Trustees,  as  a  wise  counsellor 
and  a  judicious  manager,  it  will  be  very  difficult  to  fill  with  his  equal. 

On  leaving  college  Mr.  Letts  entered  the  law  office  of  David  B.  Ogden, 
one  of  the  remarkable  names  in  the  history  of  the  Bar  of  Xew  York,  where 
he  studied  his  profession  in  a  school  of  the  highest  character.  Shortly  after 
he  commenced  practice  the  young  lawyer  was  employed  by  the  late  Judge 
John  Duer,  distinguished  as  an  able,  active,  and  learned  jurist  and  advocate 
— at  that  time  United  States  District  Attorney  under  General  Jackson's 
earlv  administration — to  assist  him  ;  in  effect,  practically  to  do  or  direct  the 
work  of  the  office.  We  are  told  on  the  best  authority,  that  although  Mr. 
Duer  held  the  office  only  for  a  few  months,  his  indefatigable  assistant  con- 
trived to  earn  enough  to  support  his  family  for  several  years  while  he  was, 
as  a  young  lawyer,  waiting  for  clients,  so  great  was  his  assiduity  and  atten- 
tion to  business. f 

Though  possessed  of  natural  gifts,  for  the  successful  advocate,  in  an  im- 
pressive manner  and  graceful  address,  Mr.  Belts'  range  of  practice  became 
that  of  the  trusted  and  confidential  chamber  counsel,  rather  than  of  the  pop- 
ular speaker  in  the  gladiatorial  contests  of  the  bar.  His  business,  as  we 
learn,  was  of  a  comparatively  private  character  :  that  of  counsellor  and  con- 
veyancer, more  than  a  court  lawyer,  and  especially  for  great  corporations.]; 
Thus,  Mr.  Betts  became  counsel  to  the  New  York  Life  Insurance  and 
Trust  Company  since  1S42  ;  avid  trustee  and  counsel  of  the  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  of  Xew  York  from  1850  to  1 S 79.  in  both  of  these 
companies  succeeding  Mr.  Duer  and  Mr.  Beverly  Robinson,  who  had 
married  the  sister  and  was  the  partner  in  the  law  business  of  Mr.  Duer. 
Always  exact  and  methodical,  judicious  and  painstaking,  acting  from  a 
high  sense  of  duty  and  principle,  invariably  courteous  and  considerate, 
Mr.  Betts  was  trusted  to  manage  vast  amounts  of  property  and  to  see  to 
its  security  as  a  lawyer.  He  was  one  of  the  most  eminent  instances  we 
have  ever  known  of  the  combination  of  character  and  capacity,  in  the 
.legal  profession,  or  indeed,  in  any  other.       Ili^  natural   acuteness  and  fine 

*  Nearly  all  Lis  classmates  have  passe  I     i  y       1        J     'r-.  \\       tm  Mitchell  remains,  and  the  lawyers 

C.  R.  Disoswayand  A.  G.  Rogers,  per)  AH  :  '.-::.•  llcge  in  office  before  him  died 
or  resigned  and'  retired  before  he  di  1. — LkS. 

t  He  married  in  1-826,  and  after  man  tgc  ...  several  years  at  Brooklyn.  He  purchased  house- 
lots  there  in  183 1. 

X  The   eminence   of  Mr.    Duer   as  an  orator   1  :   re   t!  t   ;  lurts,    on    l^ng  and    noted 

triaL;  and  before  the  public  on  imp  >rtar  :  the  tapis,  Mr.  Duer  could  give 

litttle  attention  to  ordinary  :alls,  3  ■   ft  to  his  a  sociate*  •"  d   triced  friends  a 

large  share  of  office  business.     In  Ne  f  the  r  oe  to  care  tor  and  manage 

the  different  kindb  of  business  for   .<l   their  <  Conn   cted    offices  with   one  en- 

larged  library  would  result,  and  no  clients  •  .■  :                                          •'•■   to  a  legal  opinion,   ^izzn  having 

many  branches,  as  well  as  to  a  nation  c,:;.;v,.  :  ;  •  ■•  -  Mi  i  »uer  became  a  judge  in  1848  and 
abandoned  his  law  business.— Eds. 


1885.]  Memoir  of  William  Betts,  LL.D.  3 

sense,  his  learning  and  skill,  were  based  upon  moral  worth  and  a  deep 
feeling  of  responsibility.  His  sense  of  Right  and  of  Justice  were  as 
characteristic  as  his  moderation  and  kindly  feeling,  and  inspired  his  clients 
with  confidence,  while  the)'  confirmed  his  rank  and  position  as  a  pro- 
fessional man  of  distinction.  In  ecclesiastical  affairs  Mr.  Betts  took  a 
very  decided  interest,  and  as  a  layman  did  more  than  his  fair  share  of 
church  work.  He  was  an  enlightened,  active,  and  conservative  church- 
man throughout  his  long  and  useful  life.  Pure  and  religious,  without  pre- 
tence or  ostentation,  he  was  also  an  intelligent  and  valuable  officer  in 
several  church  institutions.  Attention  to  these  affairs  occupied  much  of 
his  time  and  thoughts,  freely  given  in  the  midst  of  his  important  and  varied 
business  concerns.  As  for  instance,  he  was  vestryman  of  St.  Ann's,  Brook- 
lyn, L.  I.,  1S32-3S,  and  warden  of  Grace  Church.  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  1S42. 

He  sat  frequently  in  the  Convention  (especially  in  1837  and  1S38,  in 
the  important  sessions  when  the  diocese  was  divided),  chosen  from  St. 
Ann's,  Brooklyn,  and  from  the  Church  of  the  Transfiguration,  New  York 
City  ;  also,  trustee  of  the  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Religion  and  Learn- 
ing, and  treasurer  of  the  Society  for  the  Rrlief  of  Widows  and  Children 
of  Clergymen,  1858-74 ;  and  trustee  of  the  Aged  and  Infirm  Clergymen's 
Fund,   New  York,  for  about  the  same  period. 

Education,  of  the  ideal  character,  high-toned,  thorough,  effective,  and 
practical,  for  the  citizen  and  man  of  business,  but  more  particularly  for  the 
gentleman  and  the  professional  man,  was  a  favorite  stud}'  for  him  ;  both  in 
theory  as  a  philosophic  student,  and  in  practice  as  a  scholastic  instructor,  in 
its  connection  with  the  curriculum  and  routine  of  the  college.  Indeed, 
so  close  and  long  was  his  connection  with  Columbia  College,  ?s  under- 
graduate, alumnus,  trustee,  professor,  and  officer  of  the  board,  covering 
the  years  of  an  ordinary  lifetime — over  sixty  years— that  something  more 
than  a  superficial  notice  is  demanded  in  tracing  Mr.  Betts'  intimate  rela- 
tions with  his  Alma  Mater. 

Perhaps  to  no  one  alumnus  has  Columbia  College  been  more  indebted 
than  to  the  subject  of  the  present  sketch.  A  bare  enumeration  of  offices 
filled  by  him,  so  worthily  and  for  so  long  a  period,  affords  ample  confir- 
mation of  this  statement.  Graduating  in  1820,  and  invested  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Raws  in  1S50,  in  the  interval  elected  a  Trustee,  in 
1842,  he  held  this  post  until  his  death.  In  1S37,  at  the  semi-centennial 
celebration  of  the  establishment  of  Columbia  College,  Mr.  Betts  was  the 
poet.  This  poem  was  printed,  as  were  afterward  several  of  the  reports  to 
the  Trustees  from  his  classical  pen.  In  particular,  we  should  mention  a 
scholarly  inaugural  address,  at  the  introduction  of  the  four  newly  appointed 
professors,  Joy,  Davies,  Nairne,  and  Lieber,  185S.  Previously  to  this,  Mr. 
Betts  was  appointed  Professor  of  Law,  j  848-54,  succeeding  Chancellor 
Kent  in  the  same  chair.  A  series  of  lectures,  used  by  the  Professor  on 
International  Law,  were  never  published.4"' 

In  1S50  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Board.  This  post  was  occupied 
by  Dr.  Clement  C.  Moore  for  thirty- five  years,  181 5-1 850,  and  by  Mr. 
Betts,  his  successor,  from  1S50  to  1S74. 

The  present  Law  School,  on  a  new  and  greatly  enlarged  footing,  and 
which  lias  become  a  most  useful  and  important  adjunct  to  the  College  or 

*  It  is  believed  that  the  work  of  Mr.  Wheaton,  repeatedly  enlarged,  and  republished  by  Mr.  William 
Beach  Lawrence,  an  alumnus  of  the  College,  and  by  others,  interfered  with  the  publication  of  the  lectures, 
which,  of  course,  covered  in  part  the  same  ground. 


a  Memoir  of  William  Beits,  LL.D.  [Jan., 

University,  was  established  in  1858,  at  his  suggestion  and  by  his  aid,  as 
was  also  the  Sehool  of  Mines,  the  very  popular  and  scientific  department, 
in  1864. 

In  1858  Mr.  Betts  was  elected  a  Trustee  of  the  Medical  Department 
of  Columbia  College,  and  few  of  that  Board  now  survive. 

Mr.  Betts  had  genuine  literary  traits,  as  well  as  the  habits  and  applica- 
tion of  the  man  of  business.  He  kept  up  his  classical  reading  to  the  last. 
Immediately  after  leaving  college,  a  few  members  of  the  classes  from  1819 
to  182  1,  with  two  other  intimate  friends  associated  themselves  together  in 
a  club,  partly  for  classical  reading,  partly  to  maintain  their  friendship, 
which  they  did  through  life.  The  members  were :  Henry  D.  Cruger, 
Benj.  McVickar,  Samuel  Verplanck,  Garrit  G.  Van  Wagenen,  William 
Henderson,  Richard  Kemble,  James  I.  Rumsey,  all  deceased  (1884),  and 
two  yet  living,  Thomas  L.  Wells  and  William  Moore.  Mr.  Betts  was  the 
youngest  member.  They  met  irregularly  at  one  another's  houses,  and 
their  wives  were  admitted.  The  lady  of  the  house  always  presided  at 
their  suppers. 

Besides  his  few  publications  connected  with  the  College  we  should 
mention  that  Mr.  Betts  prepared  other  lectures  besides  those  on  inter- 
national law,  and  not  printed.  A  printed  Fourth  of  July  oration,  at  Ja- 
maica, in  1840,  we  have  never  met  with,  nor  have  we  seen  a  review  of 
President  W.  A.  DucVs  *? Outlines  of  Constitutional  Law,"  in  the  Methodist 
Quarterly.  The  St.  Nicholas  address,  read  in  December,  1851,  before 
that  society  (of  which  and  of  the  New  York  Historical  Society  Mr.  Betts 
was  a  member),  is  a  philosophical  and  elegant  paper  of  permanent  interest 
and  value.  In  these  and  ail  of  the  literary  productions  we  have  read,  by 
the  same  writer,  we  find  justness  and  propriety  of  thought  and  sentiment, 
accuracy  and  clearness  of  statement  and  discussion,  couched  in  a  pure, 
unaffected,  idiomatic  English  style.  The  judgment  and  refinement  of  the 
scholar  weie  apparent,  also,  in  his  artistic  tastes  and  accomplishments. 

He  had  the  cultivated  eye  and  judgment  of  the  amateur  in  works  of 
art  (pictorial  design),  and  was  particularly  fond  of  music  and  of  the  flute, 
on  which,  we  are  told  by  a  relative,  he  was  singularly  proficient.  In 
his  fondness  for  the  flute  he  was  distinguished  when  a  mere  child.  He 
began  to  take  lessons  at  tne  tender  age  of  five  or  six  years,  and  to  practise 
for  his  own  ear  at  the  coach-house  at  Becksgrove,  out  of  hearing  of  the 
family.  He  was  a  member  of  a  musical  society  when  a  young  man — an 
association  of  gentlemen  of  New  York,  who  themselves  played  at  their  own 
concerts.  Mr.  Betts'  instrument  was  the  flute,  Mr.  Henderson's  the  violin. 
It  is  said  when  they  played  together  the  effect  was  marvellous. 

As  his  library  marks  the  scholar,  we  have  learnt  that  it  was  small  but 
choice  ;  had  been  collecting  for  three  generations  ;  classical,  historical,  and 
literary.  It  comprised  excellent  English  editions  of  standard  histories  and 
a  few  rare  classics,  and  included,  besides,  a  large  number  of  early  New  York 
editions  of  good  authors.  But  his  studies  and  reading  were  unhappily 
brought  to  a  close  by  one  of  the  greatest  physical  evils  that  can  be  endured 
by  the  student — the  loss  of  sight,  a  calamity  that  came  upon  him  in  1863, 
in  his  sixty-first  year,  when  he  first  knew  of  the  existence  of  a  cataract. 
His  failure  of  sight  was  gradual.  Pie  ceased  to  be  able  to  read,  ten  years 
later,  in  his  seventy-third  year,  but  could  see  to  write.  For  several  years 
he  was  in  the  habit  of  taking  down  rough  minutes  of  the  meetings  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  which  his  devoted  and  faithful  son  (his  secretary  and 


i S85.]  Memoir  of  William  Beits,  LL.IJ.  5 

companion,  his  friend  and  nurse)  copied  and  wrote  out  fairly.  We  are 
informed,  moreover,  that  this  manly  sufferer  carried  on  the  conveyancing 
business  foi  the  Mutual  Comj  my  nearly  three  years  after  he  could  not  lead 
a  word.  The  papers  were  read  to  him.  His  sight,  it  is  thought,  had  not 
wholly  failed  (as  we  are  told  by  the  most  reliable  informant)  for  more  than 
two  years  previous  to  his  death..  On  occasional  visits  we  could  not  but 
admire  his  patient,  uncomplaining,  truly  Christian  fortitude  and  mildness 
in  bearing  this  almost  intolerable  misfortune,  which  clouded  and  darkened 
the  last  fourteen  years  of  his  life.  This  severe  trial  served  as  a  crucial  test 
of  temper  and  humility,  and  was  borne  with  philosophic  courage  and 
equanimity,  elevated  and  dignified  by  the  religious  faith  and  pious  sub- 
mission of  the  Christian.  His  mind  was  certainly  well  stored  with  all  the 
resources  winch  a  solitary  person  could  use  to  advantage.  The  personal 
appearance  and  bearing  of  Mr.  Betts  was  emphatically  that  of  a  gentleman. 
The  feeling  and  instincts,  the  tact  and  delicacy  of  that  rare  character  (so 
often  ill  assumed,  and  of  which  counterfeits  are  abundant)  were  distinctly 
evident  in  movement  and  gesture,  in  the  play  of  expression  of  his  features, 
and  in  the  inflections  and  tones  of  his  voice.  All  expressed  high  breeding, 
lie  united  the  essential  qualities  of  the  born  gentleman  wit]}  the  acquired 
and  adventitious  graces  of  the  cultivated  man  of  the  world.  His  features 
and  head  were  cast  in  a  classic  mould,  and  his  countenance  was  full  of 
intelligence,  sweetness,  and  natural  dignity.  His  person  was  tall  and  well 
formed,  and  we  are  not  surprised  to  be  told  that  he  and  Mr.  Berriman 
("  Old  Merchants  of  Xew  York,"  2  ser.,  p.  199)  were  considered  the  hand- 
somest men  of  their  time  in  Xew  York  Society. 

There  have  been  several  miniatures  and  portraits  of  Mr.  Betts — a 
childish  likeness  at  the  age  of  eight  or  nine  ;  a  grown  young  man  of  twenty- 
four,  by  Rogers  (of  Bridgehampton)  ;  a  small  portrait,  by  Lawson,  1842,  and, 
notably,  a  fine  life-size  photograph,  taken  for  the  Mutual  Company  in  1865 
or  about  that  date.  This  is  remarkably  handsome,  and  equally  faithful  and 
spirited;  a  fine  head,  very  characteristic,  conveying  a  just  expression  of 
noble  sentiment,  refined  intelligence,  and  charming  urbanity  of  temper — 
the  head  of  a  scholar  and  gentleman. 

In  185S,  some  years  earlier,  Dr.  N.  F.  Moore,  ex-President  of  Columbia 
College,  who  added  to  his  scholarship  and  classical  cast  of  manners  and 
tastes  the  talent  of  an  amateur  artist,  executed  a  fine  photograph  of  his 
friend,  which  we  have  never  seen.  But  we  have  seen  a  remarkable  instance 
of  his  skill  in  a  photograph  of  himself,  which  he  presented  to  the  late  Dr. 
Samuel  Seabury,  the  eminent  theologian,  and  member  of  the  well-known 
church  family  which  gave  the  first  bishop  to  the  American  Church.  Jt 
almost  produces  the  effect  of  a  fine  etching  by  Rembrandt. 

Mr.  Betts  was  married  October  28,    1826,  to  Anna  Dorothea,   eldest 
daughters  of  Beverly  Robinson.  Esq.  (the  contemporary  and  peer  of  the 
celebrated  lawyers  of  the  first  half  of  the  present  century),  by  his  inter- 
marriage with  Frances,  eldest  daughter  of  Col.  William  Duer  (who  married 
Katharine,  second  daughter  of  General  William  Alexander,  Ford  Stirling, 
of  Revolutionary  celebrity).      And  he  had  issue  two  sons  and  one  daughter  : 
1.  Beverley  Robinson,   b.  Aug.  3,  1827,  the  well   and  worthily 
known  clergyman   of  the  church,    and  for  eighteen  years  the 
accomplished  Librarian  of  Columbia  College. * 

*  With  whom  we  are  acquainted  as  a  member  of  <r;r  Society,  and  for  many  year?  a  member  of  our  Com- 
mittee of  Publication,  and  who  has  written  on  topics  of  heraldry  with  much  approbation. — Eos. 


6  The  Ancestry  of  Ann  Campbell,  Wife  of  1  Ion.  John         [Jan., 

2.  Caroline,  b.  Aug.  17,  1831,  who  m.,  1852,  Henry  B.  Robinson, 

of  Frederick  ton,  N.  B.,  and  has  issue  surviving  : 
i.  John  Beverley,  b.  June  10,  1853. 
ii.  Anne  Morris,  b.  Nov.  10,   1855,   m.,   1878,  to 
James   Cooper  Wheeler,    and    has    issue    a 
daughter,  Can  dace,  b.  1SS0. 
iii.   Candace  Alice,  b.  Feb.  5,  1S63. 
iv.  Katharine  Beverley,  b.  April  2,  1865. 
v.   Frederick  DeLancy,  b.  Jul}-  t6,   1867. 
vi.   Frances  Duer,  b.  Oct.  4,  1872. 

3.  William,  b.    March   2,  1835,   who  married   Isabel  Ford,  eldest 

daughter  of  William  H.  Needham,  of  Frederickton,  N.  B.,  and 
who  died   Feb.  14,    1869,  leaving  one   surviving  child,  Isabel 
Ford,  b.  Feb.  17,  1S64. 
Mr.  Betts  died  on  Saturday,  July  5,  1884,  at  his  house  in  Jamaica,  of 
old  age,  without  any  actual  illness,  and  was  buried  on  the  Tuesday  follow- 
ing in  the   parish  churchyard  of  Jamaica,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Houghton,  Rector 
of  the    Church   of  the   Transfiguration    in    New  York,    officiating,  whose 
church  he  had  attended  in  the  city,  the  Bishop  of   Long  Island,  and   many 
other  clergymen,  as  well  as  lawyers  and  laymen  from  a  distance,  attending 

iiis  iUiiCiai. 


THE  ANCESTRY  OF  ANN  CAMPBELL,  WIFE  OF  HON.  JOHN 
STEVENS,  OF  PERTH  AMBOY,  N.  J.,  AND  OF  NEW  YORK. 


By   Richard  F.   Stevens. 


On  the  sixteenth  clay  of  April,  a.d.  16S4,  John  Drummond,  of  Lun- 
dine,  deededf  to  John  Campbell,  gent.,  of  the  kingdom  of  Scotland,  one- 
eighth  of  one-twenty-fourth  part  of  the  land  belonging  to  the  East  Jersey 
proprietors,  and  in  the  same  year,  the  month  and  day  of  the  month  being 
omitted,  but  most  probably  at  the  same  time.*  gave  him  a  full  power  of 
attorney  to  act  as  Ins  proxy  in  the  disposition,  sale,  and  management  of 
all  his  lands  and  proprietary  rights  in  the  province  of  Nova  Caesaria,  or 
New  Jersey,  stating  his  reasons  for  doing  so  were  his  inability  to  leave  the 
kingdom  of  England  and  Scotland,  and  reposing  full  and  entire  confidence 
in  the  integrity  and  ability  of  his  friend,  John  Campbell. 

The  John  Drummond  above  alluded  to,  was  the  Honorable  John  Drum- 
mond. §  of  Lundy,  Lundine,  or  Landry,  the  second  son  of  James,  third 
Earl  of  Perth.  He  was  Baron  Drummond,  of  Gdestown,  and  created  Vis- 
count Melfort  in  1685,  and  was  assigned  part  of  the  confiscated  estates  of 
the  Earl  of  Argyll  in  Argyllshire. 

On  the  1 2th  of  August,  1686,  he  was  created  ||  Earl,  and,  in  1696, 
Duke  of  Melfort.     Besides  being  Secretary  of  State  for    the  kingdom   of 

*  In  our  view  tie  was  one  of  a  class  which  it  becomes  us  10  preserve  in  memory.  —  Eds. 

t  Book  of  Deeds,  "A,"  p.  210.  J  Ibid.,  p.  211.  £  Douglas'  Peerage. 

\  Baron  Drummond,  of  Researtown,  and  Far!  of  Forth.  The  patent  for  these  creations,  made  while 
James  II.  was  king,  passed  over  the  children  by  his  first  wife  (including  two  sons),  of  the  family  of  Lundin, 
it'ho  -t<>cre  staunch  Protestants^  and  limited  the  peerage  to  the  heirs  made  by  the  second  wife,  who  were 
Papists. — See  note  to  p.  33  of  the  Letters  from  James  IV.,  Farl  of  Forth,  published  by  the  Camden  Society, 
in  1843. 


1885.]         Stevens,  of  Perth  Amhoy,  N.  /.,  and  of  New  York.  y 

Scotland,  and  one  of  the  members  of  His  Majesties  most  Honourable 
Privy  Councill  in  both  kingdoms ;  he  was  one  of  the  original  twenty-four 
proprietors,  to  whom,  on  the  fourteenth  of  March,  a.d.  1682,  James,  Duke 
of  York,  confirmed  the  sale  of  the  Province  of  East  Jersey.* 

John  Campbell,  his  proxy  and  partner,  as  he  is  frequently  styled  in 
State  papers,  held  a  very  prominent  position  in  the  Colony  from  the  date 
of  his  arrival. 

He  appears  to  have  landed  in  this  country  some  time  in  October, 
1684. f  accompanied  by  his  wife  Alary  Campbell,  his  three  children,  Ann, 
Gawinetta,  and  John,  and  eleven  servants,  by  name,  Robt  Moore,  Alex- 
ander Mickle,  Alex.  Scott,  Colin  Campbill,  Samll  Mathew,  Patrick  Rob- 
inson, Esabell  Mathew,  Margrett  Stuere,  Mary  Still,  Mary  Mitchell,  and 
Robert  Campbill ;  these  servants,  according  to  the  custom  of  the  times, 
were  indentured  to  him  for  four  years,  dating  from  15  S'"r,  1685,  after 
which  period  of  servitude  they  were  allowed  to  form  homes  for  themselves 
in  the  infant  colony. 

From  letters  sent  home  at  that  time,  the  vessel  he  came  in  first  put  in 
at  the  Capes  of  Virginia,  and  many  of  the  passengers  landed  and  travelled 
overland  from  Maryland.  Mr.  Campbell  appears  to  have  been  one  of  this 
number,  as  we  find  in  a  letter  from  him  to  Mr.  John  DobieJ — to  whom  he 
had  sold  a  \  jrtion  of  his  share  in  the  proprietorship — as  follows  : 

"  New  Perth,  8th  of  November,  16S4. 
"  B.  John  :  I  wrote  a  line  from  PJiiladcIpJiia  to  you,  as  we  were  com- 
ing hither,  your  cusin,  James  Dobie,  the  bearer,  is  in  such  haste  that  I 
cannot  write  what  I  would  say  ;  but  in  short,  we  are  come  here  to  a  good 
wholesome  countrey,  in  which  with  little  industrie  a  man  may  have  a 
comfortable  life.  There  is  good  Wheat  and  Oats  growing  here,  and  Indian 
Corn,  which  our  servants  like  very  well  ;  There  is  Fish  and  Fowl  (in) 
abundance,  and  cows  and  Horses  ;  they  labour  with  Horse  and  Oxen. 
There  is  Deer  throughout  all  the  countrey,  and  Turkies  which  some  of  our 
servants  have  Killed  a  part  of  already.  There  is  Partrages  and  Quails  very 
rife,  that  my  wife  yesterday  morning  saw  about  20  of  them  walking  before 
the  door  like  Chickens.  I  shall  say  no  more  till  I  see  further,  for  I  am 
with  others  going  to  the  countrey  on  Monday  to  see  for  the  countrey  lotts; 
for  I  have  taken  up  the  Towns  already,  and  cut  down  the  trees  of  two 
acres  of  ground  with  six  men  in  three  days.  My  service  to  all  Friends.  I 
am  your  most  assured  Friend,  John  Campbell." 

His  addressing  Mr.  Dobie  as  B.  John,  would  seem  to  intimate  that  they 
were  brothers  -in-law,  though  possibly  the  B  may  stand  for  Beloved. 

Besides  his  own  servants  he  brought  over  three  for  Mr.  John  Doby  or 
Dobbie  (Dobie),  one  of  whom  was  named  Archibald  Campbell,  and  whom 
Whitehead,  in  his  "East  Jersey  under  the  Proprietors,"  probably  confounds 
with  Mr.  Archibald  Campbell,  the  son  of  Lord  Xeill  Campbell, §  who  came 
over  in  the  same  vessel  with  his  father,  Mr.  David  Symson,  and  fifth-three 
servants  in  December,  1685. 

The  Books  of  Deeds  among  the  archives  in  the  custody  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  State  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  contain  deeds  of  property  to  an  Archibald 

*  Book  of  N.  J.  Archives,  vol.  i,  p.  460.  t  Book  of  Deeds,  "A,"  p.  103. 

%  Ge  )r--  Scott's  "Model  of  the  Government"  of  the  Province  of  Last  New  Jersey,  p.  261. 
§  Book  of  Deeds,  "A,"  2. 


S  The  Ancestry  of  Ann   Campbell,  Wife  of  Hon.  John          [Jan., 

Campbell,  styled  in  one  place  a  yeoman  (while  in  the  same  deed  John 
Campbell  is  given  the  title  of  Gent.),  and  in  another,  a  workman."  This 
Archibald  Campbell  died  in  the  early  part  of  1702,  and  his  will,  which  was 
probated  May  15,  1702,  appoints  John  Campbell,  of  Raritan  River,  his 
heir  and  executor,  and  is  signed  only  by  a  cross  or  mark. 

Dr.  Archibald  Campbell,  the  second  son  of  Lord  Neill  Campbell,  re- 
turned to  his  native  country,  where  he  became  an  eminent  divine,  was 
created  a  Kishop  of  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Scotland,  August  25,  171 1, 
and  died  at  London  in  June,  1744. 

Another  proof  that  the  Archibald  Campbell  who  died  in  1702  was  not 
the  son  of  Lord  Neill,  is  found  in  a  deed  from  the  Proprietors  of  East 
Jersey  "to  Archibald  Campbell,  Esqr.,  son  and  heir  of  Lord  Xeill  Camp- 
bell, Dec'd,  and  Robert  Blackwood,f  Merchant,  of  Edinburgh  in  ye  King- 
dom of  Scotland,  who  holdeth  between  them  three  quarters  of  a  proprie- 
tor of  ye  sd  province,"  of  certain  lands  formerly  patented  to  Lord  Neill 
Campbell,  deceased. 

This  deed  is  dated  April  1,  1703,  some  time  after  the  death  of  the  other 
Archibald  Campbell. 

That  John  Campbell  immediately  after  his  arrival  took  a  prominent 
position  in  the  Colony,  is  proven  by  the  fact  that  before  he  had  been  six 
months  rh**re.  he  was  appointed  and  commissioned"!  one  of  the  two 
"Members  or  Justices  of  the  Court  of  Common  Rights,  outside  the  Mem- 
bers of  the  Council!." 

This  Court  of  Common  Rights  was  the  highest  court  in  the  Colony, 
and  was  equivalent  to  the  present  Court  of  Errors  and  Appeals.  The 
members  composing  it  were  the  members  of  Council,  ex-pfficio,  with  ad- 
ditional members  probably  selected  for  their  legal  knowledge. 

His  commission  §  dated  from  May  27,  16S5,  and  he  was  reappointed 
March  14,  16S6,  and  May  9,  16S7. 

The  town  of  Amboy  perth  desiring  to  be  represented  in  the  Generall 
Assembly,  he  was  elected  on  April  8,  1686,  one  of  the  two  Deputies  as- 
signed to  that  town. 

On  the  3d  day  of  July,  1685,  the  Governor  and  Proprietors  issued  an 
order  )  for  laying  out  lands  in  which,  under  the  seal  of  all  the  Proprietors, 
they  gave  authorization  for  certain  gentlemen  to  act  as  proxies  for  particu- 
lar proprietors,  and  John  Campbell  was  designated  as  the  proxy  for  Lord 
Viscount  Melfort. 

In  an  obligation  given  by  the  Deputy  Governor  and  Proprietors  of 
West  Jersey  to  fulfil  certain  agreements  with  those  of  East  Jersey.6"  they 
gave  a  bond  for  ^5,000  to  Lord  Neill  Campbell  Governor  of  East  Jersey, 
Captain  Andrew  Hamilton,  afterward  Governor,  and  John  Campbell,  pro- 
prietors, said  bond  to  be  forfeited  if  the  conditions  recited  were  not  ful- 
filled. 

On  the  14th  of  April,  1687,  we  find  him  appointed  by  the  East  Jersey 
Proprietors  as  a  Commissioner**  in  conjunction  with  Sam1  Winder  and 
Miles  fibster,  to  confer  with  the  Governor  of  West  Jersey  relative  to  run- 
ning the  line  between  the  two  provinces.  How  the  work  was  accom- 
plished the  records  60  not  show. 

A  very  singular  and  curious  document  has  been  preserved  among  the 

*  F.ook  of  Deeds.  ^  fbid.,  pp.   122,  no.  ^  I^tti.,  p.  522. 

+  Ibid.,  '•  C,"  p.  267.  \  N.  J.  Aichives,  vol.  u,  p.  499.  **  Ibid.y  vol.ii.,  p.  1. 

%Ikid.,  "C,"  P- 9s- 


1SS5.]         Stevens,  of  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.,  and  of  New    York.  g 

records  of  the  old  colonial  deeds  of  New  Jersey,  and  is  in  the  form  of  a 
rough  draft  for  a  more  formal  agreement;  it  is  between  John  Campbell  and 
David  Toshack  of  Moneybaird  or  Monyweard,  and  reads  thus  : 

"  That  John  Campbell  send  a  footman  in  velvett  to  waitt  on  Mony- 
baird,  his  heires  anal  assignes  leaving  (or  bearing)  the  name  &  amies  of 
Toshack,  which  man  so  cladd  is  to  wait  on  Monybaird  as  aforesd  dureing 
the  tyme  of  parliament  &  that  to  hold  his  stirrup  dureing  the  fores'd  tyme 
so  cladd  as  said  is,  ffor  the  whole  causes  Monybaird  is  to  dispone  his  in- 
terest in  Amboy  Towne  to  the  sd  John  his  heirs  leaving  (bearing)  the  name 
6c  amies  of  Campbell,  failing  the  said  John  losses  his  interest  to  Ann  & 
his,  &  that  what  interest  Monybaird  dispones  to  the  foresd  John  Campbell 
in  Amboy  to  returne  to  Monybaird  leaving  (bearing)  the  foresd  amies,  & 
his  (this)  paper  is  to  be  extended  in  forme  as  aforesd,  cSc  signed  by  both 
party es,  &  each,  to  have  a  double  Registrat,  at  Amboy  the  sixteenth  day 
of  december  one  thousand  six  hundred  eighty  &  four. 

"Toshack.  j'on.  Campbell:  p  Mcgregor. 
"witnes  Benjamin  Clark." 

This  curious  document  seems  to  have  been  made  soon  after  John  Camp- 
bell's arrival  in  the  colony."  The  parliament  alluded  to  was  the  Grand 
Council,  which  consisted  of  the  Governor  and  twenty-four  proprietors,  or 
their  proxies,  and  twenty-eight  representatives  chosen  by  the  colonists, 
which  met  once  a  year,  and  the  Common  Council,  which  consisted  of  the 
twenty-four  proprietors  and  nine  representatives,  which  sat  constantly  to 
transact  the  ordinary  business  of  the  colony. 

David  Toshack,  of  Monybaird,  was  styled  in  the  instruction  to  Deputy 
Governor  Laurie,  etc.,f  sent  by  the  proprietors  in  London,  August,  16S4, 
as  the  "  partner  with  James,  Earl  of  Perth,  and  Sir  George  McKenzie,  of 
Tarbutt,  and  proxy  for  them." 

The  Toshacks,  of  Monybaird,  intermarried  with  the  Campbells,  of 
Glenuchy,  several  times  ;  one  of  them,  probably  the  person  above  alluded 
to,  marrying  the  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Campbell,  of  Glenuchy,  grand- 
father of  the  first  Earl  of  Breadalbane. 

These  Campbells  were  descended  from  Sir  Colin  Campbell,  of  Glen- 
uchy, uncle  of  the  first  Earl  of  Argyle.  who  was  the  third  son  of  Sir  Dun- 
can Campbell,  of  Lochow,  a  direct  descendant  of  Diarmed  O'Dubin,  a.d., 
404. 

John  Campbell,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  probably  descended 
from  this  branch  of  the  family.  As  David  Toshack  and  John  Campbell 
represented  the  several  interests  of  two  brothers,  viz.:  Perth  and  Drum- 
mond,  it  is  presumable  they  were  on  intimate  relations  with  each  other, 
and  from  Mr.  Campbell  taking  the  arms  and  livery  of  the  Campbells,  he 
must  have  been  a  near  relation  of  Argyll  and  Lord  Neill  Campbell,  with 
whom  he  seems  to  have  had  many  close  business  connections. 

Whitehead,  in  his  "  East  Jersey  under  the  Proprietors,"  makes  him  a 
son  of  Lord  Neill  Campbell,  while  Dr.  Messier,  in  his  ;- Centennial  History 
of  Somerset  County,"  at  one  time  styles  him  his  son,  and  at  another  time 
his  nephew.  These  gentlemen  must  both  be  mistaken,  as  Lord  Neill  had 
but  two  sons,  Colonel  Charles,  who  fought  in  the  rebellion  of  16S5,  and 
Bishop  Alexander,  who  is  mentioned  before.     His  nephew,  John  Campbell, 

*   George  Scott's  Model  of  die  Government,  etc.  +  New  Jersey  Archives,  vol.  i.,  p.  460. 


IO  Rogers  Lineage,  [Jan., 

of  Mamore,  was  also  engaged  in   this  rebellion,  and  was  the  father  of  the 
second  Duke  of  Argyll  and  was  never  in  America. 

John  Campbell  was  the  owner  of  a  large  tract  of  land  of  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  seventy  acres  on  the  West  Si  \e  of  South  Branch  of  the  Ra 
John  Dobbie  (to  whom  he  sold),  Lord  Melfort,  Governor  Andrew  Hamil- 
ton, and  Lord  Neill  Campbell,  all  owned  land  in  the  vicinity ;  their  deeds 
are  dated  November  9,  16S5. 

John  Campbell  died  in  the  summer  of  1690,  and  in  his  will  which  was 
probated  August  2,  1690,  he  declares  himself  "sick  in  boddy  but  of  sound 
and  perfect  memory,  thanks  be  to  Almighty  God."'  lie  leaves  to  his  wife, 
Mary  Campbell,  after  the  payment  of  the  debts  he  owes  in  right  or  con- 
fidence to  any  person  whatsoever,  his  entire  temporall  estate,  he  also  leaves 
to  her  the  Disposal!  of  his  three  children,  Ann,  Gawinetta,  and  John,  and 
constitutes  her  as  Executrix. 

His  eldest  daughter,  Ann,  married  John  Stevens,  of  Amboy,  about  17 10, 
and  had  issue  as  follows  :  Campbell,  a  captain  in  Colonel  Schuyler's  regi- 
ment of  "  Old  Blues,"  who  fought  in  the  French  wars  at  Oswego,  and  Fort 
William  Henry.  John,  who  was  a  distinguished  citizen  of  Xew  Jersey,  and 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  American  Revolution  as  Vice-President  of  his 
Colony  and  State,  and  Member  of  the  Continental  ^Congress.  William, 
1  ^^n'o  Richard,  Sarah,  and  Mary,  who  intermarried  with  Fenwick  Lyell,  a 
well  known  member  of  the  Xew  Jersey  Bar. 

Gawinetta,  the  second  child  of  John  Campbell,  married  William  Harri- 
son, one  of  a  family  that  figured  prominently  in  the  history  of  East  Jersey 
during  its  infancy. 

His  son,  John  Campbell,  settled  on  the  banks  of  the  Raritan  and  held 
the  office  of  High  Sheriff  of  Middlesex  and  Somerset.f  He  died  in  the 
spring  of  1733,  and  his  will,  which  was  probated  on  April  iSth  of  that  year, 
shows  that  he  left  a  numerous  family.  It  mentions  his  wife  Mary,  and  his 
children  John,  Douglass,  James,  Margret,  Janet,  Ann,  and  Neill.  Many 
of  his  descendants  most  probably  are  now  living  in  Somerset  County. 


ROGERS   LINEAGE. 


By  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  of  Clinton,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  150.; 

A  few  errors  of  a  typographical,  or  numerical  sort  must  be  corrected, 
and  some  valued  items  of  new  information,  very  recently  procured,  must 
be  communicated  to  the  reader,  while  yet  we  stand  on  the  threshold  of  the 
present  number  of  this  article. 

I.  The  words,  p.  153  of  Vol.  XV.  of  Record,  "  6.  iv.  James  Rogers," 
should  have  been  '•'  5.  iv.,"  agreeing  with  preceding  page. 

II.  i;  Gen.  John  Cotton  Smith,"  p.  154.  should  have  been  "Gov.,"  etc. 

III.  On  same  page,  middle  letter  iv'  R.''  in  Abial  R.  Botsford,  should 
have  been  " K" 

IV.  On  p.  155  (third  line  from  top),  the  words,  "or  that  of  Samuel," 
should  have  been,  li  or  that  of  Morris?     Note,  also,  that  the  words  imme- 

*  Dr.  Messlcr»s  Records.  t  Book  of  Deeds. 


18S5.J  Rogers  Li?ieage.  \  \ 

diately  following,  viz.,  "This  family,  if  related  to  him"  (that  is,  to  Dea. 
Jedediah  R.  Hawley),  ''must  have  been  so  related,  as  nephews  of  Dr. 
Uriah  Rogers,"  are  words  of  Mr.  Hawley,  and  not  of  the  narrator  at  all. 
They  are  worth)  of  being  carefully  studied  for  more  light. 

V.  Quite  a  number  of  such  informants  of  Rogers  family  facts,  as  the 
writer  could  find  in  various  parts  of  the  land,  have  seemed  to  be  surpris- 
ingly ignorant  of  the  real  and  most  interesting  story  of  their  lineage  ;  and, 
worse  than  that,  well-nigh  indifferent  to  it.  Very  few  have  seemed  to  have 
any  strong  sense  of  kinship  with  those  of  their  own  name,  or  blood,  or  any 
great  curiosity  to  know  what  kind  of  an  experience  those  have  had  who 
have  been  "bone  of  their  bone,  and  flesh  of  their  flesh,"  as  they  have 
sailed,  one  after  another,  on  "life's  solemn  main" — whether  in  the  sunshine, 
or  in  cloud  and  storm  continually,  and  whether  having  had  a  large  heritage 
themselves  of  noble  ideas  and  aims  and  deeds,  received  from  other  days 
and  other  hearts,  and  transmitted,  enlarged,  and  improved  by  them  to 
those  who  were  their  successors:  or  possessing,  at  the  best,  but  a  poor 
pittance  of  nobility  in  their  own  souls,  they  were  satisfied  with  that  little, 
as  their  portion  of  good  under  the  sun.  Often  does  it  happen  in  family 
history  that,  by  the  power  of  new  additions  from  without,  of  splendid, 
morally  splendid  affinities,  established  in  a  new  generation^  a  great  and 
permanent  exaltation  ;:~  given  to  the  tone  of  family  feeling,  and  a  new 
sense  of  the  true  ends  of  human  aspiration  and  endeavor.  New  native 
fire  is  thus  sometimes  imported  into  the  blood,  and  new  vigor  of  accom- 
plishment into  muscle  and  nerve,  where  before  they  were  wanting. 

The  writer,  while  not  having  a  particle  of  Rogers  blood  from  any 
source  in  his  veins,  has  taken  great  pleasure  in  seeking  to  summon  those 
who  belong  to  that  family  by  right,  in  name,  or  feeling,  to  cherish  their 
ancestry  with  reverence  and  affection,  and  "  to  esteem"  all  its  worthy 
actors  on  life's  busy  stage  (i  very  highly  in  love,  for  their  works'  sake." 
Scarcely  one  of  the  family  has  been  found  that  knew  that  Dr.  Uriah 
Rogers  and  Samuel  Rogers  were  brothers,  and  that  they  were  both  resi- 
dents of  Norwalk,  Conn.  Who  and  what  their  descendants  have  been, 
where  they  have  lived,  and  what  they  have. sought  to  do  for  their  kind  and 
actually  have  done  for  them;  and  the  fact  of  the  broad  mutual  relation- 
ship of  the  Lockwoods,  Hawleys,  Rogerses,  Kents,  Kings,  Scribners,  and 
Gracies — all  these  facts  that  should  have  been  of  high  account  surely  with 
them,  as  a  family,  wherever  known,  have  remained  quite  unknown  to 
most  of  them  until  now.  To  one  considering  these  facts  it  will  not  seem 
so  strange,  as  it  otherwise  might,  that  the  writer  could  have  found  the 
moderate  appreciation  that  he  did,  and  even  the  imperfect  understanding 
of  the  fact  of  Chancellor  Kent's  membership  in  the  family.  The  presence 
of  so  bright  a  legal  star,  shining  steadily,  high  and  clear,  in  the  horizon  of 
the  times,  for  more  than  a  century,  would  be  enough  to  give  a  special 
illumination  of  its  own  to  any  family  history,  however  distinguished  by 
other  merits.  That  the  writer  could  have  been  so  misinformed  by  any 
member  of  the  family  not  cognizant  of  the  real  facts  of  the  case,  as  to  state 
(p-  i5j)  "that  Chancellor  Kent  had  no  children,"  he  regrets:  and  he 
takes  great  pleasure  in  stating  now,  contrarily,  at  the  first  opportunity  for 
doing  so  publicly,  that  Chancellor  Kent  had  four  children,  viz. : 

i.  Elizabeth  Kent,  b.  March  25,  1 791  ;  d.  March  26,  T793. 

ii.  Elizabeth  Kent,  2d,  b.  Feb.  16,  1796  (she  always  called  her  own 
name  '-Eliza"),  m.,  Sept.  16,  1S16,  Isaac  Stoutenburgh  Hone,  b.  Feb.  14, 


12  Rogers  Lineage.  [Jan. 

1794  (son  of  John  and  Hannah  Hone),  a  prominent  New  York  merchant, 
and  a  gentleman  of  much  talent,  worth,  and  culture.  He  d.  June  5,  1856, 
and  she  d.  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  April  29,  1S77.  They  had  one  child, 
Elizabeth  Kent  Hone,  b.  Oct.  28,  1819,  wno  rn-»  ^ec«  l3i  I^3^)  William 
Henry  Ashhurst,  of  Philadelphia,  b.  there  Aug.  16,  1S15  (son  of  Richard 
and  Elizabeth  Ashhurst  of  that  city).  He  is  a  resident  (1885)  of  Phila- 
delphia, without  professional  employment.  They  have  had  live  children  : 
1.  Henry  Ashhurst,  who  m.  a  Miss  Potter,  of  South  Carolina,  and  re- 
sides in  Philadelphia,  without  professional  occupation.  2.  Emily  Ash- 
hurst, who  resides  in  Philadelphia,  unmarried.  3.  Elizabeth  Kent 
Ashhurst,  who  m.  Richard  Lloyd  Williams,  of  Philadelphia,  and  now  re- 
sides in  Newport.  R.  I.  4.  Alice  Ashhurst,  who  resides  unmarried  in 
Philadelphia.  5.  Fanny  Ashhurst,  who  m.  Lieutenant  Lambert  Y. 
Palmer,  who  was  lost  in  the  United  States  Steamer  Huron,  November,  1877. 

iii.  Judge  William  Kent,  b.  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  2,  1802,  graduated 
at  Union  College,  an  eminent  lawyer  in  New  York  City;  judge  of  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  (1841-5) ;  Professor  Harvard  College  Law  School,  succeeding 
Judge  Story  in  "  The  Royal  Professorship  of  Law  "  (1846-7).  He  returned 
afterward  to  the  practice  of  law  in  New  York  City  (1S47-61).  He  m. 
Nov.  2,  1821,  Helen  Riggs,  b.  in  New  York,  May  18,-1802  (dau.  of  Caleb 
Riggs  and  Abigail  Burner,  granddaughter  of  Colonel  William  Burnet,  Sur- 
veyor-General of  the  Continental  Army).  He  died  at  Fishkill,  N.  Y.,  Jan. 
4,  1 86 1  ;  she  d.  there  Aug.  18,  1S70.  They  had  but  one  son,  James  Kent, 
b.  Sept.  21,  1S30.  He  m.,  April  30,  1853,  Sarah  Irving  (dau.  of  Edwin 
Clark  Irving  and  Sarah  Sanders).  He  studied  law  in  his  father's  office, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1851,  and  resides  now  in  Fishkill-on-the- 
Hudson,  practising  his  profession. 

From  his  active,  helpful  interest  in  furthering  the  zeal  of  the  writer  to 
do  justice  to  the  Kent  part  of  the  Rogers  lineage,  the  facts  here  cited  have 
been  largely  obtained. 

He  has  had  four  children,  viz. : 

1.  James  Irving  Kent,  b.  April  2,  1S54,  in  New  York,  m.,  June  3, 

1875,  Louisa  Morris  Stewart  (dau.  of  William  Pinckney  Stew- 
art and  Helen  Le  Roy).  He  was  graduated  at  Columbia  Col- 
lege Law  School,  and  admitted  to  the  New  York  Bar  in  1876, 
and  is  now  (1SS5)  practising  law  in  New  York  City.  Pie  was 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Assembly  in  18S3-4.  His  chil- 
dren are  : 

(1)  James  Kent,  b.  March  1,  1876. 

(2)  William  Pinkney  Kent,  b.  Feb.  27,  1877. 

'      (3)  Helen  Van  Cortland  Kent,  b.  Sept.  21,  1879. 

2.  Edwin  Clark  Kent  (son  of  James  Kent,  of  Fishkill,  and  Sarah 

Irving),  b.  Aug.  2,  1S56;  graduated  at  Columbia  College,  and 
is  now  (1885)  a  lawyer  in  Fishkill,  N.  Y.,  and  unmarried. 

3.  William  Kent  (son  of  James  and  Sarah   Kent),  b.  March  19, 

185S,  grad.  at  Columbia  College,  and  studied  law  in  Newburgh, 
N,  Y.,  m.,  April  30,  1SS1,  Emily  Loriliard  (dau.  of  Pierre  Loril- 
lard  and  Emily  Taylor).  He  is  a  practising  lawyer  in  New  York. 
He  has  two  children,  viz.  : 

(1)  William  Kent,  b.  in  New  York,  April  14,  1882. 

(2)  Emily  Lorillard  Kent,  b.  in  Pelham,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  23, 

1883. 


1SS5.]  Rogers  Lineage.  13 

4.  William  Irving  Kent  (son  of  James  and  Sarah  Kent),  b.  Jan. 
8,  1 86 1,  is  now  in  the  sugar  business  in  the  Philippine  Islands 
(1885).  He  m.,  at  Yokohama,  Japan,  Dec.  10,  1884,  Helen 
Van  ( lortland  Stewart  (dau.  of  the  late  William  Pinkney  Stewart 
and  Helen  Le  Roy). 

iv.  Mary  Kent  (dau.  of  Chancellor  James  Kent  and  Elizabeth  Bailey), 
b.  May  19,  1807,  m.,  as  his  second  wife,  Sept.  5,  1839,  Rev.  John  Seely 
Stone,  D.D.j  b.  in  West  Stockbridge,  Mass.  (son  of  Ezekiel  Stone,  a  farmer 
there,  and  Mary  Seely).  He  was  grad.  at  Union  College,  New  York,  in 
1S23,  and  at  the  General  Episcopal  Seminary,  New  York,  in  1825,  and 
ordained  deacon  by  Bishop  Hobart  in  1S26.  lie  was  rector  for  about  two 
years  each  respectively  in  succession,  at  Litchfield,  Conn.  (St.  Michael's); 
Frederick,  Md.  (All  Saints);  and  New  Haven,  Conn.,  1S30-32  (Trinity); 
at  which  last  place  a  revival  under  his  ministry,  at  the  time,  gave  a  special 
charm  always  in  his  thoughts  to  his  remembrance  of  his  rectorship  there. 
From  New  Haven,  which  he  left  with  regret,  he  went  to  Boston,  Mass., 
and  took  the  rectorship  of  St.  Paul's  (1832-41);  and  afterwards  (1841-53) 
that  of  Christ  Church  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  last  of  all,  that  of  St.  Paul's 
in  Brookline,  Mass.  (1853-63).  He  was  for  a  few  years  (1863-66)  Lec- 
turer in  the  Episcopal  Theological  School  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  and  in  July 
1867  was  elected  Professor  of  Systematic  Divinity  in  the  Episcopal  The- 
ological School  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  the 
same  institution — to  reside  at  Cambridge.  He  gave  his  whole  time  and 
care  to  the  organization  and  progress  of  that  then  new  institution,  from 
that  time  ( 1 S 6  7 )  until  his  retirement  from  his  labors  at  Easter  in  1S76. 
He  d.  in  his  eighty-seventh  year  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  after  a  long  life  of 
wisdom,  piety,  and  honor,  January  13,  1SS2. 

Dr.  Stone  published  several  works  of  great  interest  and  value,  as  "The 
Evangelical  and  Tractarian  Systems  Compared"  in  1853;  "Scripture- 
Views  of  the  Church  of  Christ,"  1S66;  "  Lectures  on  the  Christian  Sab- 
bath," 1867;  "Scriptural  Yiews  of  Baptism  and  The  Lord's  Supper,"  1S67, 
and  "The  Life  of  Bishop  Griswold,"  and  "  The  Life  of  Dr.  Milnor,"  etc. 

[Dr.  John  S.  Stone  m.  for  his  first  wife,  May,  1S26,  Sophia  Morrison 
Adams,  of  Schenectady,  b.  Nov.  6,  1802  (dau.  of  James  Adams  and  Susan 
Robinson  Morrison).  She  was  gr. -granddaughter  of  Rev.  Elisha  Kent,  of 
Putnam  County,  N.  Y.,  by  his  daughter  Mrs.  Morrison.  She  d.  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  in  March,  1838.  He  had  by  this  marriage  two  children:  (1)  Archi- 
bald M.  Stone,  who,  in  after  life,  dropped,  in  compliance  with  an  uncle's 
will,  the  name  Stone,  and  took  the  name  Morrison.  He  was  b.  in  Litch- 
field, Conn.,  in  1827,  and  now  resides,  as  a  retired  Episcopal  clergyman 
(R.ev.  A.  M.  Morrison),  in  South  Orange,  N.  J.  (2)  Mary  Kent  Adams 
Stone,  b.  in  1835,  living  now,  unmarried,  in  Cambridge,  Mass.]. 

Madam  Mary  Kent  Stone  resides  now  (1S85),  greatly  venerated,  in  her 
seventy-eighth  year,  among  her  children  and  many  personal  friends,  at  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  w  here  the  cherished  memory  of  Dr.  John  S.  Stone  is  held  in 
ever  fresh  delight  in  the  hearts  of  all  who  knew  him,  and  only  to  love  and 
honor  him.     They  had  six  children  : 

1.  Rev.  James  Kent  Stone,  b.  Nov.  10,  1840,  grad.  at  Harvard  in 
1 86 1,  ordained  an  Episcopal  clergyman,  made  Professor  of  Creek  and  Latin, 
in  Kenj-on  College,  Gambler,  O.,  and  afterwards  (1S67)  President  of  same  ; 
and,  in  1S69,  President  of  Hobart  College,  Geneva,  N.  Y.  In  1S71  he 
became  a  Roman  Catholic  priest,  and  a  novice,  in  same  year,  in  a  Passion- 


I  a       .  Rogers  Lineage.  [Jan., 

ist  Institution  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  was  afterwards  a  Paulist  Father  in 
New  York.  In  1S79  ne  went  to  South  America,  and  is  now  (1S85),  as  he 
has  been  for  several  years,  the  head  of  a  Passionist  Monastery  in  Buenos 
Ayres,  Argentine  Republic,  S.  A. 

lie  in.,  Aug.,  1863,  Cornelia  Fay,  oi  Brookline,  Mass.,  b.  Sept.,  1S34 
(dau.  of  Harrison  Fay  and  Sarah  Kelsey).  She  d.  at  her  father's  house  in 
Brooklirie,  Feb.   16.  1869. 

In  the  late  Union  war  he  enlisted  early  as  a  private  in  the  Second 
Massachusetts  Regiment  of  Volunteers,  and  went  at  once  to  the  front  in 
Virginia,  and  was  promoted  to  a  lieutenancy,  but  was  compelled  to  resign 
his  commission  soon,  on  account  of  continued  ill-health. 

2.  William  Kent  Stone,  b.  Jan.  31,  1842.  He  is  now  a  student  and 
teacher  in  The  Art  Museum  in  Boston,  and  resides,  unmarried,  in  Cam- 
bridge, .Mass. 

3.  Henry  Van  Dyke  Stone,  b.  August  9,  iSj.3.  He  left  the  Scien- 
tific School  at  Xew  Haven,  Conn.,  where  he  was  pursuing  his  studies,  when 
the  rebel  war  broke  out,  and  joined  with  his  brother  James,  as  a  private,  the 
Second  Massachusetts  Regiment  of  Volunteers,  and  went  at  once  to  Vir- 
ginia, and  was  made  second  lieutenant.  He  was  instantly  killed  in  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg.  Pa.,  on  the  morning  of  July  3,  1S63.  His  revered 
mother  rejoices  to  think  of"  him.  ever,  in  the  solitude  of  her  own  peaceful 
thoughts,  as  "a  noble  youth  that  lived  and  died  without  a  stain,"  at  the 
early  age  of  nearly  twenty,  in  the  service  of  his  country. 

4.  Elizabeth  Kent  Stone,  b.  March.  22,  1846,  m.,  June,  1S72,  Rev. 
Professor  Alexander  Viets  Griswold  Alien,  D.I).,  b.  in  Otis,  Mass..  May  4, 
3841  (son  of  Rev.  Ethan  Allen  and  Lydia  Child  Burr).  He  is  Professor 
of  Ecclesiastical  History  in  the  Episcopal  Theological  School  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.     They  have  two  sons  : 

(1)  Henry  Van  Dyke  Allen,  b.  May  5,  1S73. 

(2)  John  Stone  Allen,  b.  Oct.  5,  1S75. 

5.  Charles  Simeon  Stone,  b.  Nov.  26,  1848.  He  is  connected  with 
Dnpee's  Chemical  and  Dye  Works,  at  Walpole,  Mass.,  where  he  resides, 
unmarried. 

6.  Philip  Sidney  StOne,  b.  Jan.  29,  1852,  grad.  at  Harvard  in  1872, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1S82.  He  m..  Oct.  17,  1882,  Anna  Flake 
Abbott,  b.  March  12.  1S54,  dan.  of  Samuel  Leonard  Abbott,  M.D.,  of  Bos- 
ton, Mass.  (son  of  Samuel  Leonard  Abbott  and  Matilda  Campbell),  and 
Eliza  Jones  Hoppin  (dau.  of  Thomas  Cole  Hoppin,  of  Providence,  R.  L, 
and  Harriet  Dunn).  He  is  connected  with  the  American  Bell  Telephone 
Company  at  Boston,  and  resides  at  Cambridge. 

VI.  As  to  Moss  Kent,  Esq.  (father  of  Chancellor  James  Kent),  see  p. 
152,  the  writer  was  wrongly  informed  when  he  stated  that  "he  had  other 
children  by  his  second  marriage."  His  second  wife  was  Mrs.  Mary  Hazard, 
widow  of  John  Ha/ard,  o(  Green's  Farms,  Fairfield  County,  Conn.  She 
had,  at  the  time,  three  sons — Joseph,  Samuel,  and  John  Hazard — and  four 
daughters — Mary,  Mercy,  Anna,  and  Abigail  Hazard — but  had  no  children 
ever  of  Kent  paternity. 

VII.  Likevise  as  to  Judge  Moss  Kent  {the  brother  of  the  Chancellor), 
p.  153,  No.  12,  ii..  the  writer  has  been  able  to  gather  some  facts  of  interest 
not  before  known  to  him.  He  was  b.  April  3,  1766.  He  d.  at  Plattsburg, 
N.  Y.,  May  30,  1838,  aged  nearly  seventy-two.  He  was  a  practising  law- 
yer at  first,  but  was  made  State  Senator  from  the  western  Senatorial  district 


1885.]  Rogers  Lineage.  jr 

for  the  sessions  of  1800—1803,  four  years,  and  a  member  of  Assembly  from 
Jefferson  County,  N.  V.,  1807-10.  He  was  also  a  member  of  Congress, 
1S13-17,  and  First  Judge  of  the  County  Court  (Common  Pleas),  appointed 
such  in  rSio,  and  holding  office  until  1817,  at  which  time  he  was  appointed 
Register  of  the  Court  of  Chancery,  when  he  resigned  his  judgeship — his 
brother  being  Chancellor. 

While  County  Judge  he  resided  at  Le  Raysville,  Jefferson  County, 
N.  Y.,  instead  of  Plattsburg.  To  John  J.  Lai  ting,  Esq.,  of  the  editorial 
corps  of  the  Record,  the  writer  is  indebted  for  this  interesting  leaf  of  new 
matter  for  his  history  of  Kent  facts. 

In  still  one  more  line  of  discovery  the  writer  has  succeeded,  by  much 
continued,  and  inventive,  and  patient  effort,  in  obtaining  considerable  valu- 
able informal  ion  concerning  another  branch  of  Kent  development. 

VIII.  Hannah  Kent,  sister  of  Chancellor  James  Kent  (dau.  of  Moss 
Kent,  Esq.,  and  Hannah  Rogers),  b.  Oct.  to,  1768;  m.,  Oct.  n,  1790, 
William  Pitt  Piatt,  of  Plattsburg,  Clinton  County,  N.  Y.  (son  of  Judge 
Zephaniah  Piatt,*  the  original  proprietor  of  a  large  part  of  Plattsburg,  and 
his  second  wife,  Mary  Van  Wyck). 

She  d.  at  Plattsburg,  Dec.  12.  1842,  aged  seventy-four.  She  was  a 
lady  of  superior  intellect  and  culture,  and,  though  totally  blind  during  the 
last  twenty  years  of  her  life,  her  features  were  still  full  of  the-beauty  of  her 
earlier  days  unto  the  end,  and  she  was  ever  bright,  intelligent,  and  attractive, 
and  always  gentle,  affectionate,  and  cheerful  in  her  spirit  and  her  manners 
to  all  around  her,  and  she  had  ever  at  ready  command  a  large  fund  of 
anecdotes  and  of  pleasing  reminiscences,  and  delighted  in  sharing  them, 
with  a  charming  enthusiasm  of  her  own,  with  others.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren. 

Dea.  William   P.  Piatt,  as  he  was   commonly  called,  was   b.  April  30, 

*  Judge  Zephaniah  Piatt,  the  father  of  Dea.  William  P.  Piatt,  was  the  son' of  Zephaniah  Piatt,  who  was 
the  son  of  Jonas  ;  and  he  was  the  son  of  Kpenetus,  the  common  ancestor  of  most  of  the  Piatts  on  Long 
Island.  !!:•>  home  and  that  of  the  family  for  several  generations  was  at  Huntington,  L.  I.  His  father,  Zeph- 
aniah Piatt,  was  a  man  of  substance  and  of  mark.  He  was  one  of  those  imprisoned  by  Andros,  in  1661. 
He  d.  in  Huntington  m  1673.  He  had  a  son,  Epenetus.  also,  who  was  in  public  life  from  Huntington  (a 
representative  o{  Suffolk  County  in  the  17th,  iSth,  19th,  and  20th  State  Colonial  Assemblies'.  Judge  Zepha- 
niah Piatt  was,  for  many  years,  a  resident  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  V.,  before  removing  to  Piattsburg.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Congress  ;  a  member  of  the  Council  of  Safety:  a  member  of  the  Continental 
Congress  ;  County  Judge  of  Duchess  County  ;  a  member  of  the  Convention  of  178S  ;  a  Regent  of  the  Univer- 
sity ;  a  State  Senator. 

Judge  Zephaniah  Piatt  was  born  at  Huntington,  L.  I.,  May  27,  173?,  and  d.  Sept.  12.  1S07,  aged  72. 
He  m.  Hannah  Davis,  and  had  by  her  two  children;  and  for  a  second  wife,  Mary  Van  Wyck-,  and  had  by 
this  marriage  twelve  children.  She  was  born  June  20,  1743,  ar'd  d.  Oct.  18,  1809,  agfd  66.  His  children 
were  '. 

1.  Zephaniah  Platt,  b.  Jan.  3,  1756. 

2.  Hannah  Platt,  b.  March  26,  1758. 

3.  Theodorus  Platt,  b.  March  23,  1763. 

4.  Elizabeth  Platt,  b.  April  12,  1765. 

5.  Mary  Platt,  b.  July  12.  1767,  d.  young. 

6.  Jonas  Platt,  b. 'June  30,  1769. 

7.  William  Pitt. Platt,  b.  April  30,  1771,  d.  Aug.  12,  1835. 

8.  Charles  Z.  Platt.  b    July  12,  1773. 

9.  Nathaniel  Platt.  b.  Dec.  16,  1775. 

10.  Robert  Platt,  b.  Oct.  21,  1778. 

11.  Mary  Platt,  2d,  b.  Aug.  21.  1780. 

12.  Levi  Platt,  b.  April  17th,  17S2. 

13.  David  Platt,  b.  June  6,  1784. 

14.  James  Platt,  b.  January  2,  1788. 

Ten  of  his  children  were  sons.  yoaas  Platt  (No.  6)  was  a  Member  of  the  N.  Y.  Assembly,  Member  of 
Congress  State  Senator,  and  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  N.  V.:  Theodorus  V\a.lt  (No.  3)  was  the  first 
Surrogate  of  Clinton  County,  N.  V.  (1788)  ;  Nathaniel  Platt  1  No.  c;  Mas  a  Member  of  Assembly  from  Chit- 
ton  County  in  1807  :  Cnarc-.s  Z.  Piatt  (No.  8)  was  a  Member  of  Assembly  from  Oneida  County  in  1807, 
and  was  appointed  State  Treasurer  in  1813  -.Robert  Platt  (No.  10)  was  a  Member  of  Assembly  from  Clinton 
County  in  1814,  and  from  Franklin  County  in  1815  ;  James  Platt  (No.  14)  was  elected  Mayor  of  Oswego 
in  1S48,  and  was  State  Senator  (1832-33).  Pew  families  have  furnished  so  many  distinguished  names,  and 
ail  in  close  proximity  to  each  other,  to  the  Civil  Service  of  the  State. 


1 6  Rogers  Lineage.  [Jan-> 

1771,  and  was  a  large  landholder  and  farmer,  living  on  "Cumberland 
Head,"  in  Plattsburg  (the  scene  of  the  naval  engagement  called  "the 
Battle  of  Plattsburg")  in  1814.  He  was  honest,  earnest,  and  energetic, 
and  a  man  of  strong  convictions  and  opinions.  He  d.  Aug.  12,  1835, 
set.  64. 

CHILDREN    OF    DEA.    WILLIAM    P.    PLATT. 

i.  James  Kent  Platt,  M.D.,  b.  Feb.  it,  1792,  d.  April  4,  1824,  set. 

31.  He  was  fitted  for  college  by  his  uncle  Moss.  Kent,  Esq.,  and  wasgrad. 
at  Middlebury  College,  Vermont,  and  pursued  his  medical  studies  at  New 
York,  completing  them  by  several  additional  years  of  further  study  in  London 
and  on  the  Continent — a  custom  not  of  such  frequent  occurrence  in  that  day 
as  in  this.  He  m.,  Sept.  13,  1S1S,  Eliza  Hallam  Henshaw,  b.  in  1801 
(sister  of  Bishop  Henshaw,  of  Middlebury,  Vt.).  He  practised  medicine 
for  a  time  with  Dr.  B.  J.  Mooers,  of  Plattsburg,  and  was  appointed  Pro- 
fessor in  the  Medical  Department  of  Burlington  College,  Vt.,  and  lived  long 
enough  to  give  a  single  course  of  lectures  in  the  institution,  but  was  com- 
pelled to  resign  his  post  of  usefulness  and  honor  on  account  of  disease  and 
feebleness,  and  d.  April  4,  1824.  He  had  two  children  who  both  d.  young. 
A  daughter  lived  to  be  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  d.  in  Middlebury.  Mrs.  Dr. 
james  iv.  Piatt,  d.  in  Philadelphia,  in  1003,  ait.  S2. 

ii.  Zephaniah  Platt  (son  of  William  P.  Platt  and  Hannah  Kent),  b. 
Aug.  12,  1794,  m.  Feb.  3,  1S28,  Lucretia,  dau.  of  Thomas  Miller.  They 
had  two  children  : 

1.  Elizabeth  Platt,  who  d.  young. 

2.  May  Platt,  who  m.  James  Westcott,  and  for  a  second  husband, 

Edmund    Hathaway,  but   had   no  children   by  either  marriage. 

She  d.  March  29,  1880. 
iii.  Mary  Platt  (dau.  of  Dea.  William  P.  Platt  and  Hannah  Kent),  b. 
July  15,  1796,111.  Dec.  30,  1813  (when  but  seventeen  years  old),  Benjamin 
John  Mooers,  M.D.  (son  of  John  Mooers,  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  after- 
ward of  Corinth,  N.  H.,  and  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  and  of  Susan  Morrill),  b. 
at  Haverhill,  Sept.  n,  1787.  She  was  a  lad}'  of  superior  abilities  and  of 
refined  tastes.  Eew  lives  on  earth  are  spent  in  a  more  honorable  and  use- 
ful way  than  that  of  a  wise,  active,  skilled  physician  intent  upon  meeting 
with  promptness  and  effect  the  many  varied  troubles,  mental  and  bodily, 
of  our  common  humanity.  She  d.  April  S,  1869,  ret.  72.  They  had  ten 
children  : 

1.  Eliza  ?s[ooers,  b.  July  24,  1815,  m.  Amherst  Douglas  Fouquet, 

of  Plattsburg,  and  had  four  children,  viz.  : 

(1.)  Susan  Abigail  Fouquet,  b.  March  9,  1S37,  who  m.  P. 
Tenney  Gates. 

(2.)  Mary  Platt  Fouquet,  b.  Oct.  22,  1842,  who  m.  Archi- 
bald Achison. 

(3.)  Elizabeth  Platt  Fouquet,  b.  Dec.  13,  1S4S,  who  re- 
sides unmarried  at  home. 

(4.)  Anna  Douglas  Fouquet,  b.  April  5,  1850,  who  resides 
unmarried  at  home, 

2.  Susan  Mooers,  b.  Aug.  27,  181S.  d.  April  8,  1822. 

3.  Hannah  Maria  Mooers  (dau.  of  Dr.  Benjamin  J.  Mooers  and 

Hannah  Platt),  b.  Nov.  27,  1S21,  m.  Theodore  Platt  Cady,  of 


1885.]  jRogers  Lineage.  \j 

Plattsburg,  and   after  his   death,  for  a  second  husband,  Dewitt 

Clinton  Boynton,  of  same  place.     She  had  four  children  and 

all  by  the  first  marriage  : 

(1.)  Pauline  Cady,  b.  Aug.  25,  1S40,  whom.  Chauncey  Stod- 
dard without  issue. 

(2.)  Hiram  Walworth  Cady,  b.  Nov.  19,  1842,  who  m. 
Augusta  Wood,  and  has  had  two  children  :  §  1.  Theodore 
Cady  ;  §  2.   Catharine  Wood  Cady. 

(3.)  Benjamin  Mooers  Cady,  b.  April  6,  1845,  w^°  m-  ^^a 
Wood,  and  has  had  two  children  :  §  1.  Frederica  Mooers 
Cady;  §  2.  Walworth  Cady. 

(4.)  Theodora  Cady,  b.  April  14,  1847,  who  m.  Robert 
Bailey,  without  issue. 

4.  William  (Pitt)  Plait  Mooers,   b.   Jan.   9,  1824,  m.  Jan.   27, 

1846,  Marion  Catharine  Koynton.  To  him  the  writer  is  largely 
indebted  for  the  account  here  given  of  the  descendants  of  Dea. 
William  P.  Piatt.  He  is  a  merchant  in  Plattsburg.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Legislature  (187S-80J.  Treasurer 
Clinton  County,  N.  Y.,  1S55-57,  and  in  1864-66,  of  the  White- 
hall &  Plattsburg  R.  R.  Co.,  President  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion of  the  Village  of  Plattsburg,  for  several  years,  and  for 
nearly  twenty  years  a  Director  in  First  National  Bank.  He 
has  had  five  children  : 

(r.)  John  Boynton  Mooers,  who  d.  young. 
(2.)  Moss  Pratt  Mooers,  b.  in  1850, who  d.  Sept.,  1877, aet.  27. 
(3.)  William  Boynton  Mooers,  b.  about    1855,  in.  Jeanette 

McCain,  and  has  one  child,  Benjamin  Knox  Mooers. 
(4.)  Catherine  Marion  Mooers,  b.  about  i860,  m.  Andrew 

Mount  Piatt. 
(5.)  Mary  Helen  Mooers  (dau.  of  Wm.  P.  Mooers),  b.  about 

1S70. 

5.  Mary  Mooers  (dau.    of   Dr.    Benjamin  J.    Mooers  and  Mary 

Piatt),   b.   July   11,   1S25,   m.  June     1,    1842,    Arnold  Stukely 
Stoddard,  b.  Aug.  26,  1S16,  in  Peru,  N.  Y.  (son   of  Chauncey 
Stoddard,  of  Woodbury,   Conn.,    and  Matilda    Arnold);  resi- 
dence, St.  Louis,  Mo.      Three  children  : 
(1.)  Matilda  Arnold  Stoddard,  b.  May  25,  1844,  m.  P.  C. 

Dooley,  a  lawyer  at  Little  Rock,  Ark. 
(2.)   Eliza  Fouquet  Stoddard,  b.  Mar.  31,  1846,  m.  Charles 

H.  Peck,  Jr.,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
(3.)  Mary  Mooers  Stoddard,  b.    Nov.   3,   1S51,   m.   a  Mr. 

Drummond,  of  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

6.  John  Henry  Mooers,  M.D.  (son  of  Dr.   Benjamin  J.    Mooers 

and  Mary  Piatt),  b.  Nov.  27,  1S27,  m.  Helen  Boynton.  He 
entered  the  Union  Army  in  1S61  as  assistant  surgeon  in  the 
1 6th  Regiment,  U.  S.  Volunteers,  and  was  promoted  to  be  sur- 
geon in  the  118th  Regiment,  N.  Y.  Volunteers,  and  served  to 
the  end  of  the  war;  and  was  appointed  surgeon  in  an  expedi- 
tion against  the  Indians  under  Colonel  Forsythe,  and  was 
killed  in  battle  by  them  in  186S.  He  had  one  child,  John 
Boynton  Mooers,  b.  about  1858,  who  is  still  living  (1885). 

7.  Moss  Kent  Mooers,  b.  (when  not  stated),  and  d.  early. 


1 8  Rogers  Lineage.  [Jan., 

8.  Benjamin  Mooers,  b.  (when  not  stated),  and  d.  young. 

9.  Sophia  Whiteside  Mooers,  b.  July  26,  1829,  m.  William  Dem- 

ning  Morgan,  and  had  three  children  : 

(1.)  Lucy  Morgan,  b.  Oct.  29,  1850. 

(2.)  Elizabeth  Morgan,  b.  Feb.  6,  1S57,  d.  in  18S2. 

(3.)  Platt  Morgan,  b.  Sept.  8,  1S00. 

10.  Robert  Platt  Mooers  (youngest  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  J. 
Mooers  and  Mary  Platt),  b.  about  1835,  was  a  civil  engineer 
and  surveyor.  He  went  to  Decorah,  la.,  about  the  year  1858. 
Here  he  m.  Phebe  Edwards,  and  had  one  child,  Eiien  Edwards. 
In  1861  he  raised  a  company  of  which  he  was  made  captain, 
and  joined  with  it  the  5th  Minn.  Regiment  of  Union  Volunteers, 
commanded  by  Colonel  Sanborn.  He  was  killed  at  the  Battle 
of  Corinth,  Miss.,  in  1S62. 

iv.  William  Plait  (son  of  William  Pitt  Platt  and  Hannah  Kent),  b. 
Feb.  25,  1799.  d.  Feb.  ic,  1S.--9,  aged  30;  unmarried. 

v.  Elizabeth  Platt  (dau.  of  Dea.  Win.  P.  Platt  and  Hannah  Kent), 
b.  May  15,  1S06;  in.,  May  29,  1S24,  Henry  Ketchum  Averill. 

She  d.  March  21,  1S42,  aged  thirty-five.  Chancellor  Kent  says  of  her, 
in  a  letter  of  consolation  to  her  mother  (his  sister),  which  is  still  extant  : 
"  Z\^  had  been  greatly  ?^,vted  rliifhig  her  life  with  bodily  infirmities — a 
fact  which  attached  her  friends  all  the  more  strongly  to  her  by  the  power 
of  sympathy.  She  was  a  woman  of  strong  mind  and  of  strong  feelings  and 
of  great  energy  and  decision  of  character.  She  had  won  deeply  upon  my 
respect  and  regard  for  her.  Mrs.  Kent  (your  sister)  sends  her  warmest 
affection. "  He  adds  :  "  Her  sympathies  are,  as  they  always  have  been, 
active  and  tender*'  (she  was  then  seventy-three  years  old,  and  the  Chan- 
cellor seventy-nine),  ''and  no  person  of  whom  I  know  interests  herself 
more  deeply  than  my  beloved  wife  in  the  sorrows  as  well  as  the  joys  of  her 
friends.      Devotedly  and  most  affectionately,  your  brother,  James  Kent.-' 

Mrs.  Averill  suffered  much  from  asthma.  While  moving  herself  in  the 
highest  circles  of  social  life  she  was  ever  thoughtful  of  the  interests  and 
the  comfort  of  the  poor  and  lowly. 

They  had  five  children  : 

1.  James   Kent  Averill,  b.  "March  to,  1825,  a  lawyer  at   Cham- 

plain,  X.  Y.     He  m.  Jeanette  Evans,  of  Grafton,  Vt.,  and  has 

had  four  children  : 

(1.)  Susan    Averill,  who  m.   Sylvester  Alonzo    Kellogg,  of 

Plattsburg. 
(2.)  Jeanette  Evans  Averill,  who  m.  Royal  Corbin,  a  lawyer 

in  Piattsburg. 
(3.)  Mary  B.  Averill,  who  m.  Henry  Hoyle,  of  Champlain. 
(4.)  James  Averill. 

The  children  of  Sylvester  Alonzo  Kellogg  and  of  Susan 
Averill  (Xo.  1)  are  as  follows,  viz.:  §  1.  Ralph  Averill  Kellogg, 
who  is  now  (1S85)  a  student  in  Harvard  College  ;  $  2.  Henry 
Theodore  Kellogg  ;  ^  3.  George  Caspar  Kellogg  ;  §  4.  Augusta 
Kellogg.  S.  Alonzo  Kellogg,  their  father,  was  State  Senator, 
in  Xevada  (1864-6);  District  Attorney  of  Clinton  County,  X. 
Y.  (1874-6);  and  was  elected  Judge  of  Clinton  County  for 
six  years  in  1882. 

2.  Henry  Ketchum  Averill,  Jr.,  b.  xMarch  26,  1830,  is  a  civil 


i8S$.]  Rogers  Lineage.  ig 

engineer,    surveyor,   and  draughtsman  in  Plattsburg.     He  m. 

Almira  Elizabeth  Miller,  and  has  had  four  children  : 

(i.)   Charles  Ketchum  Averill,  who  d.  young. 

(2.)  Frank  Lloyd  Averill. 

(3.)  Maria  Elizabeth  Averill. 

(4.)  Grace  Platt  Averill. 
3.  Mary   Elizabeth    Averill,    b.   July    19,    1831  ;   m.   Perry  E. 

Burch,  and  has  had  four  children  : 

(1.)  Martha  Laura  Burch. 

(2.)  Mary  Burch. 

(3.)  Jean ie  Burch. 

(4.)  William  Put  Burch,  who  d.  in  infancy. 
vi.  Hon.  Moss  Kent  Platt  (son  of  William  Pitt  Piatt,  Esq.,  and  Han- 
nah Kent),  b.  at  Plattsburg,  May  3,  1S09.  He  had  not  the  advantages 
of  a  collegiate  or  classical  education,  but  only  those  of  the  ordinary  village 
school  of  the  times,  and  was  in  early  life  a  clerk  in  a  store  (1823-30),  until 
of  age,  when  he  became  a  merchant  (1830-56),  and  engaged,  at  the  same 
time,  largely  in  the  manufacture  of  iron.  Pie  was  always  interested  in  all 
i  is  of  public  and  political  importance,  and  all  forms  of  social  progress, 

an  1  in  whatever  would  tend  to  promote  the  welfare  of  any-communities, 
r*r  ?ven  individual?,  v;t]  ;"  His  sphere  of  influence  or  range  of  vision,  and 
is  remembered  by  great  numbers,  who  knew  him  well,  as  a  large-minded, 
public-spirited,  Christian  gentleman,  who  rejoiced  in  using  life's  true  bene- 
fit-, aright  himself,  and  in  diffusing  them,  as  widely  as  possible,  to  all 
around  him. 

He  was  State  Senator  from  the  Sixteenth  District  in  the  New  York 
Legislature  (1866-67),  and  exerted  a  great  influence  in  it  by  his  superior 
judgment,  and  weight  of  character,  and  his  effective  reasoning  and  elo- 
(.  icnce  as  a  public  speaker.  In  1S6S  he  was  a  Presidential  Elector  (Re- 
an).  In  1872  he  was  elected  Inspector  of  State  Prisons,  whose 
opportunities  of  usefulness  and  whose  active  duties  he  greatly  enjoyed  as 
giving  him  many  coveted  fields  and  forms  of  accomplishing  lasting  results 
for  good  to  the  community  in  prison-reform.  He  was,  for  many  years,  a 
ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Plattsburg,  and  was  everywhere 
a  pronounced  and  positive  Christian  in  his  principles  and  purposes  in  life, 
and  in  his  manners  toward  all  around  him. 

He  m.,  Oct.  14,  1830,  Elizabeth  Sarah  Freligh,  b.  Sept.  25,  1810  (dau. 
of  John  E.  George  Freligh,  of  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  and  Betsey  Deming,  of 
Bennington,  Vt.).  She  d.  March  25,  1856,  and  he  m.,  for  second  wife, 
May  20,  1858,  Margaret  Anne  Freligh  (dau.  of  John  George  Freligh  and 
Margaret  Olive  Savage,  his  second  wife);  so  that  his  two  wives  were  half- 
sisters  to  each  other. 

Fie  had,  by  his  first  marriage,  four  daughters  and  one  son.  Mrs.  Moss 
K.  Platt  now  resides  (1885)  in  Plattsburg.  She  writes  to  the  author, 
January  10,  1S85  :  "My  husband  would,  I  am  sure,  have  been  greatly 
interested  in  the  genealogical  undertaking  in  which  you  are  engaged.  He 
was  tenderly  devoted  to  his  mother,  who  died  in  his  house,  and  it  gives  me 
great  pleasure  to  aid  you  in  any  way  to  prepare  any  worthy  memorials  of 
her  ancestry  and  kindred.'' 


20  Rogers  I 


CHILDREN. 

(i.)  Hannah  Kent  Platt,  b.  Oca  :  a  i  :  52,  I  2  '.  :    -  - 

fos€        Matthew  Myers  f  Lawi  I  .    . 

Delia   -      tla    :  .     She  d.  Aug      .  1    5    .         tei        ily  as  ] 

5.    b.   Tap..    ::         -  '         25,   1856.      Mr.  Joseph  ^1 

Myers  now  (1885)  resi      3  i     Plain  field,  X     . 

'  ■:.     :  -•    {  Maria  Pj       i  .  t  Platl        1  Elizabeth  S. 

Frel       .   .  .    May  15,  1835,  m.,  Nov.  27,  ]    ;    .        .  ..      Stetson     -    J 

of  Hon.  Lemuel  Stef  I  Helei     Haskel]        He  was  a 

la  ;  r  Plattsburs  but  Ma]  li  1  .  ned  the  Uni  Army  with  a 
:ompany  of  soldiers  that  he  y  for  1    •  th  N.  Y. 

1     i       *nt  of  Unioi    \      mteers.      ■  "        1  at      e  head     f         .  .  _     »c    I 

b)      ly  1  attle  :''  Anti    .   m,  Md.3  ar  I  i 2nd        lie       nant-colonel.     = 

was    :illed,  Sej  temt    r      a     :  ':  —  sh  mting,  "M  1  all;         ;     ur  colors 

as  he  fell,  amid  a  si       . :     :  -  '     n  the  ei        y, 

5.         hnFi     u     [  Platt,  b.        I   1      [S3 7,  entered, i     sn  agedfif 

the  Sophomore  year  of  the  class     f  1S55.      Pc alt]     necessitated  his 

ie        ture  from  college   1     "    ,  t!  .        -       ft]      :.....  E     fte]  I  ■ 

3  e     .-    ai   .   more  of   e l  for  the  f  his  health    he  rejoined  th 

colleg       in  th     dass    af  1S58),  but    '.  the  senior  year  from  consump- 

ti        Feb.  25,  r858. 

(4.)  Sarj      1  ml        r,  b.  Oct      .       59.  m.,  Oct.  17,  185c    V  ..- 

lard  Ainsworth  Fuller,  of  Plattsb org  :         liam  Fi     sr,  of  St.  All 

Yt..  an  1  Eliza  Greene  merchant,  1  and  now  resi  ling  v  ith  his  '  il'e  in 
that  place.  They  have  I  st  six  chi  Iren,  all  when  infa  ts  names  not 
givei    .     T  •  :   iaughl . .  -   ir  I  one  s       -    1    . 

g  1.   M   a   A3  ei    Platt    Fuller,  b.  May  27,   1 

g  2.  Moss  K R,  b;  2  fay  :.  1868. 

§  5.  Elizai  eth  Freligi  1  ller,  b.  Sept.  9,  iS  74, 
Margarei  Frei  :.  Platt  aughter  of  Hon.  Moss  Kent  Platt 
andEJ  .:'.  S.  Freligi  ,  b.  Nov.  • :  1843,  m.f  Aug.  29,  1866,  Michael 
Pe:er  Myers,  a  merchant  of  Plaits  a  son  f  Lawrence  Myers,  :: 
Plattsburg,  and  Maria  I  :-  lia  Kirtlan  .  .  They  reside  now  at  Plattsburg. 
They  have  no  children 

IX.   The    scattered    threads       ."    H      ley   genealogy   w]    ±    have    be    - 
carefully  laid  or  careless!]     hopped    int  [iter's   hands    he    ever  in ci- 

de    ta]  •.  and    chiefly  in   a       :       n  3f  Dea.    Jedediah    2. 

Ha1  ley,  Xo.  $c.  viii.,  p.  15,  u  I  at  .  ...  a  ■■-:•.  fragmentary  way,  he 
has  carefully  preserved  foi  .    ;    ..."  ire  :  i   g •:-  of  my  who  are  interested 

in  the::  perusal. 

The  gr.-gr.-grandfathei    -f  said  Dei    J.  R.  Hawley,  rf  Redding,  Conn., 
now  eighty-one   yea-   )ld.  Joseph     I        a     . :'  1  eddii  ..      He    a:   '  his 

wife  are  recorded  as  havir a    a         ted  tc    ihurch    membershij    I    ..a. 

as  early  as  1 740.  Hera.,   len  name  is        :nc     a    They  had   four  children : 
i  William  I  a  :  -  -  5. 

ii.   Mary  Ha     1  a  bapt  7,  j  742. 

a.    Ri  ::i  EIawlev,  b;    a  N    ■ .  ; 
iv.   Eva:  :e  H         a   .  '.  - .  :.  X.  . .  : 5.  175a 
i.  William  Hawley    sor    rf  J  .    H  .    jf  Redding),  b.   about 


i S S 5 •  J  Rogers  Lineage.  21 

173S,  m.  July   12,    1 75S,  Lydia  Nash,  of  Redding.      He  d.  Feb.,    1797; 
she  d.  April  26,  1S12.     They  had  seven  children  : 

1.  Lydia  Hawley,  b.  about  T760,  and  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Joseph  Hawley,  b.  May   23,  1762,  and  had  eight  children. 

3.  Lydia   Hawley,   2d,  b.   Dec.    13,   1763,111.    Aaron  Sanford,  of 

Redding. 

4.  William  Hawley,  b.  about  1765,  d.  in  infancy. 

5.  William    Hawley,    2d,   b.   Feb.    9,    1767,      Fie   m.,   Dec'  24, 

1794,  Sarah  Marshall,  of  Woodbury,  Conn.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1771 
(dau.  of  Rev.  John  Rutgers  Marshal],  first  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
Church,  Woodbury,  and  Sarah  Bryan,  of  Milford,  Conn.,  who 
were  in.  Nov.  19,  1766).  They  removed  to  Oswego,  N.  Y.  , 
about  the  period  of  1825-28;  and  she  d.  there  June  24,  1845. 
Their  children,  seven  in  number  were  :  (1)  William  Marshall, 
b.  Jan.  12,  1795.  (2)  Sarah  Lydia  Marshall,  b.  May  10,  1797. 
(3)  William  Marshall,  b.  May  23,  1799.  (4)  Susanna  Anna 
Maria  Marshall,  b.  Nov.  19,  1801.  (5)  John  Panel  Marshall, 
b.  Feb.  23.  1804.  (6)  Henry  Rutgers  Marshall,  b.  April  29, 
1806.     (7)  Mary  Sophia  Marshall,  b.  Aug.   29,  1809. 

6.  Hezekiah    Hawley   (son    of  Joseph  Hawley,    of~Redding),   b. 

about  1769,  d.  in  infancy. 

7.  HlzeivIah  Hawley,  2d,  b.   March    10,  1772,   m.  Rebecca   San- 

ford. of  Redding,  and  had  seven  children. 
3.  Lydia  Hawley  (dau.  of  William  Hawley,  of  Redding),  b.  Dec.  13, 
1763,    m.,  about    1783,    Rev.  Aaron  Sanford,  of  Redding,  one  of  the  first 
local  elders  (Methodist)  in  New  England.     She  d.  March   21,  1847.      He 
d.    Feb.  S,  1 84  7.      Their  children  were  : 

(1.)  Betsey  Sanford,  b.  Oct.  5.  1781,  m.,  March  23,  1799,  John 

R.  Mill.     She  died  July  29,  1818. 
(2.)   Hannah  Sanford.  b.  May  31,  1784,  m.,  Nov.  13,  1S06,  Rev. 

Aaron  Hunt.      She  d.  Sept.  18,  183 1. 
(3.)  Aaron   Sanford,  b.    July  8,  1786,   m.,  Dec.  19,  1S13,   Fanny 

Hill.     He  d.  Aug. -21,*  1S73. 
(4.)  Rev.  Hawley  Sanford,  b.  July  16,  1789,  m.,  Nov.  2,  1S14, 

Betsey  Stowe. 
(5.)  Jesse   Lee  Sanford,  b.  July  27,  1791,  d.  unmarried,  April  9, 

1S13. 
(6.)  Eunice  Sanford,  b.  Aug.  10,  1793,  m.,  March  30,  1S14,  Isaac 

Gorham.     She  d.  Dec.  22,  1827. 
(7.)  Rev.   Walter  Sanford,   b.  Feb.  iS,   1796,  m.,  Dec.  6,  182  r, 

Harriet  M.  Booth. 
(8.)  Charlotte   Sanford,    b.  Jan.   8,    1800,  m.,  May    23,   1S19, 

.  Thomas  B.  Fanton.     She  d.  in  1857. 
(9.)  Lydia  Sanford,  b.  Sept.  23,  1803,  m.,  April  30,  182 1,  Aaron 

S.  Hyatt. 
(10.)  William   A.    Sanford,  b.   Jan.   15,    1807,  m,,  May  2,  1S32, 
Flarriet  T little. 
Dea.  Jedediah  R.  Hawley  tells  the  writer  that  the  descendants  of  Aaron 
Sanford  and  Lydia  Flawley  have  amounted  to  a  large  number  of  persons 
under  various  names,  well  known,  in  many  communities  of  the  land,  for 
their  talent,  integrity,  piety,  industry,  thrift,   and   their  political  and  legis- 
lative prominence,  and  their  success  in  large  and  commanding  business 


2  2  Roger*  Lineage.  [Jan., 

relations.  The  plain  country  farming  towns,  with  their  simple  and  quiet 
ideas  and  manners,  which  abounded  in  ear!}-  New  England  life,  furnished 
ju^t  the  best  material  possible  in  their  style  of  organization,  and  of  direct 
energetic  activity  for  the  development  of  the  best  forms  of  superior  social 
growth  and  advancement. 

X.  Warren  R.  Dix,  Esq.,  a  lawyer  at  160  Broadway,  N.  Y.  (the 
Guernsey  Building),  and  a  resident,  with  his  family,  at  Elizabeth,  N.  J., 
writes,  under  date  of  Xov.  iS,  1804,  as  follows:  "I  now  know,  beyond 
controversy,  that  Miss  Caulkins'  Major  Uriah  Rogers,  of  Southampton, 
L.  I.,  Norwich,  etc.,  was  the  Major  Uriah  Rogers,  b.  Sept.  9,  1737,  who 
was  my  mother's,  and  also  Miss  Caulkins',  great  uncle,  and  the  son  of 
James  Rogers  and  of  Mary  Harris,  of  New  London.  The  Son,  in  the  firm 
name  (Uriah  Rogers  c>  Son),  was  William  /Rogers,  of  Norwich,  at  whose 
house  my  mother  visited  in  1S40,  or  so,  and  with  whose  daughter  I  have 
been  in  correspondence  for  some  time  past,  and  who  has  promised  to 
bestow  upon  .me  the  sword  worn  in  the  Revolutionary  War  by  her  grand- 
father, Major  Uriah  Rogers,  son  of  James  Rogers,  of  New  London,  Conn. 
I  am  also  personally  acquainted  with  a  granddaughter  of  this  Major  Uriah 
Rogers,  of  Norwich,  now  living  in  Xew  York  City.  She  is  the  daughter  of 
John  Rogers  (son  of  Major  Uriah),  who  remained  behind  in  Southampton, 
ana  u;ea  Lhere  some  Uveiit)  years  ago.  But  my  great  grandfather,  Jere- 
miah Rogers,  and  his  brother,  Major  Uriah,  left  Southampton,  L.  I.,  at 
about  the  same  time- — the  first  named  of  the  two  brothers  going  to  Clinton 
(as  it  was  then  called)  to  reside,  but  now  Hyde  Park,  Duchess  County, 
N.  Y.,  and  the  second  (Major  Uriah)  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  each  dying, 
in  the  end,  in  the  place  to  which  they  then  removed." 

In  a  previous  letter  to  the  writer,  dated  Xew  York,  June  30,  18S4,  W. 
R,  Dix,  Esq.,  had  stated  "that  Elizabeth  Rogers,  b.  Jan.  27,  1741,  who 
m.  Robert  Manwaring  (see,  on  p.  151,  list  of  children  of  James  Rogers 
and  Mary  Harris),  was  the  grandmother  of  Miss  Frances  M.  Caulkins,  the 
historian  of  New  London.  Miss  Caulkins  is  said  to  have  known  more 
about  the  history  of  the  Rogers  family  than  any  other  member  of  it.  She 
prepared  a  statement  of  the  result  of  her  researches,  which  is  known  to 
have  been  in  the  possession,  at  o;  e  time,  of  my  mother's  late  cousin,  Rev. 
Dr.  Ebenezer  Pratt  Rogers  (b.  Dec.  18,  1817,  and  d.  Oct.  22,  1SS1).  long 
the  successful  and  beloved  pastor  oi  '  The  Collegiate  Reformed  (Dutch) 
Church  !  in  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York." 

XI.  Abigail  Rogers  (dau.  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers,  of  Xorwalk,  Conn., 
and  Hannah  Lockwood),  b.  Oct.  14,  1749  5  m->  -bout  1776,  Rev.  Matthew 
Scribner,  b.  Feb.  7,  1746.  graduated  at  Yale  in  1775  (son  of  Matthew 
Scribner,  a  farmer  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and  Martha  Smith,  of  Long  Island, 
whom  he  m.  Xov.  10,  1742).  He  was  ordained  and  installed  as  a  Con- 
gregational clergyman  at  Westford,  Middlesex  County,  Mass.,  Oct.  5.  1779, 
but,  after  a  few  years  of  restless  discontentment  with  his  pastorate,  resigned 
it  Nov.  10,  17S9,  and  removed  soon  to  the  adjoining  town  of  Tyngsboro, 
Mass.,  where  he  resided  until  his  death  in  18 13,  aged  sixty-seven.  On 
Oct.  6,  1788,  a  committee  was  chosen  to  try  and  settle  "the  difficulties  ex- 
isting between  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  Westford  and  Rev.  Mr.  Scribner, 
their  pastor."  They  advised  the  calling  of  a  council  of  representatives  of 
seven  neighboring  churches,  who  met  early  in  December  following,  and 
advised  the  troubled  pastor  to  stay  at  his  post.  It  is  manifest  from  the 
record  still  remaining,  that  whatever  virtues  the  people  of  Westford  may 


Rogers  L  23 

have  had  in  Mr.  S  poor  habit 

J  obligations  1  .  :  \ 

.     .     ..':.:  -         f  1  itisfac- 

I  perp]       .  5  relatioi  te I  ..  ty  gen- 

?,  13  I      .   voted  not  to  accept  the  result 

late     ouncil  and  to  1     se      "25     for  Re       Mr.  Scri   tier's  bad  y"     i  -i 

t  remissness  they  had  been  s]  \  ard  his  da 

r  res         ful  and  '      rem  his  pecui      .  y  1 

p  parent  1       '  1  salary  that  they  1  ed  themsel      5  to  fur- 

nish him  ]  be  keeping  for  a 

I        :     ad  for  tw  and  twenty       rds  of  1         .         .:.-.-        -     -'   : 

for  his  j        .  si  yea       expecting     :      .  :  increase  t        ; 

sti]    ■■       ]  -.".'    t  y  year,  ace  .     the  goc  '.  1       Its  of  the  s]     itual 

f  his  ]     itorate).     His  brief  and       satisfactory  experiei     t  of  minis- 
:  seems  t     hav    been  such  that  he  had  n      ' .  •    e  to  pi    tract  it  to 
y  great  length.     He  was  son  of  Matthew  Sc 

.  was  . '_    ".:...  her  being  :      Lh.  of  Long 

.-    '     11        le   in    :---.   ai   '    :    :k  his  A.M.   ■*: gree  in  17S3.      He 
third  of  his  life  in  the  aui _-.  pursu  ts  -:"  farm  life         its  fre 
from  all  public  res]  Lties  an  '  cares,  its  e     >yment     :     \  :  n  ; 

-       sercise,  and  its  easil 'ed  sense  of  c    itentme 

- :    aiary  c    ndition  an  3  pr    >pects;   and  it  might  seem   both  natural 

leass    tt     revert  again  after  the  tui    toil  of  his   life  at  Westford  to  the 

-    "    at  Lis  later  life  of  early  tastes  long  ch        tied,  to  the     leasures 

nte        itive  life,  a    It     the  freed    m  of  thought  that  he  might  enjoy, 

-    led  in  any  way,  in  his  personal  opinions  and  sentiments. 
Ler  the  d  f  his      ife,  *      1     I  Rogers,  which  must  have  occurred 

-   ly  as    1778,  tie    m.,  Decembei  16,  1779    San      Porter,  if  Topsneld, 
-    ]    1754   (dau.   :.'  Elijah  and  Dorothy  Porter). 
:  -   : .. .-     f  wil     '..     !,  just  over  the   line  m  the  tc    v     :" 
Socially        I   religiousl     he   maintained  his    :    :   -.ec:::::   :;    ."..- 
Lhe  people     FWestfc    i    but  lived  in  Tyngsboro,  on  his  farm,  1   if.il 
•     '■      .:-::.    aged    >/.     He   is   said   to  have    tried   the   experi         :. 
her  things,  : :'  raisins    merinc  sheep,  at  :.  j  rofit,  but  without  suc- 
-  -   paying  :    great  price  for  the  stock.     He  had  by  his  first  wife, 

•  R   gers,   >ne   :  :  .  '    Uriah  Re  gers  S  :rihr.er,  and  by  his  se :::..".  wife, 
ter,  ten  o:her  chil  :  ren,  viz.  : 

1.  Sarah  5:r:?:;zr.  b.  Sept.  15.  17S1.  d.  Oz:.  4,  17S1. 

2.  Elijah  Porter  Scri   ner,  b.  Oct.  n.  1782. 

3.  Xath^n:::  S  .:-  n  :•: t..  b.  June  30,  :  - :  _• 

4.  Hannah  Scribner,  b.  Feb.  12.    1786. 

5.  Sarah  S:?a5>:ia.  ';.  Se;  ;::.  ::.  17S7. 

6.  William  Scribner.  ':.  Tv.:y  27.  1 7S9,  d.  Dec.  n.  1790. 
7-   Samuel  Scribner,  ;:'  I  altimore,  Md.,b.  Dec.  9.  179c. 

8.  William  Scribner,  b.  ]  me  22.  1792. 

9.  Abigail  Scribner,  b.  Feb.  :".  1794. 
10.  Rufus  Scri]       .     b  Aug.  2:.   1795. 

One  of  these    laughters     not      ated   which     m    Leonard  Kendall,   :  f 
>boro,  and  Hannah  (No.  4)  m.  William  Usher,  of  Charlestc    0   . 
■  ".  :24. 

le  first  of  the  Scribner  family  that  appeared  at  Nbrwalk,  Conn., 
Benjamin  Scrivener    is  he  called  ::::    se:  .  ..ho  m.  March  5,  166c    Hannah 


• 


24  Rogers  Lineage.  [Jan., 

Crampton,  of  that  place,  and  had  by  her  four  sons — Thomas,  John,  Abra- 
ham, and  Matthew.  They  changed  their  name  to  Scribner — as  it  has  re- 
mained ever  since,  and  been  brought  by  their  reeent  descendants  into 
con  picuous  honor  in  the  land.  Matthew  Scribner,  Sr.,  and  Martha  Smith, 
of  Long  Island,  had  nine  children  :  i,  Nathaniel  Scribner,  b.  about  174.;  ; 
2,  Rev.  Matthew  Scribner,  b.  Feb.  7,  1746,  grad.  at  Yale  in  1775,  settled 
at  Westford,  Mass.,  in  1779;  3,  Martha  Scribner;  4,  Enoch  Scribner  ;  5, 
Elijah  Scribner;  6,  Jeremiah  Scribner  ;  7,  Iveziah  Scribner,  b.  about  1754, 
whom.  Thomas  Hawley,  of  Ridgefield,  Conn.;  8,  Abigail  Scribner;  9, 
Elizabeth  Scribner.] 

The  only  child  of  Rev.  Matthew  Scribner  and  Abigail  Rogers  was 
Uriah  Rogers  Scribner,  b.  in  1776.  He  was  a  jobbing  merchant  in  New 
York  for  fifty  years,  of  moderate  success  in  business,  and  d.  there  Jan,  7, 
1853,  aged  77.  Uriah  Rogers  Scribner,  b.  in  1776,  m.  his  cousin,  Martha, 
dau.  of  Nathaniel  Scribner,  of  Norwalk,  who  d.  earl)-,  and  had  two  daugh- 
ters :  (1)  Abby  Scribner,  who  d.  young;  (2)  Matilda  Scribner,  b.  Jul}-  26, 
1S09,  who  m.  George  \V.  Schuyler,  of  Ithaca,  N.  Y.  Uriah  Rogers  Scrib- 
ner, m.  for  a  second  wife,  about  18 12,  Betsey  Hawley,  dau.  of  Thomas 
Hawley,  of  Ridgefield  (son  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hawley,*  of  same  place,  1714- 
38,  b.in  1690,  grad.  at  Harvard  in  1709,  and  originally  from  Northampton, 
Mass.)3  and  had  by  this  marriage  eleven  children: 

1.  Matilda  Scribner  (daughter  by  first  wife,  Abigail  Rogers),  b. 
July  26,  1S09,  m.,  April,  1839,  George  \V.  Schuyler,  of  Ithaca, 
N.  Y.,  a  druggist  and  a  dealer  in  coal  there  now  (1885).  She 
is  still  living. 

The  children  (eleven  in  number)  by  the  second  wife,  Betsey  Hawley, 
were  : 

1.  Edward   Scribner,  b.  March    28,    18 13,  who  m.  E.  Gertrude 

Brown  and  had  seven  children.  He  was  a  merchant  in  New 
York  City,  and  d.  Jan.  7,  1S64. 

2.  Jane  Scribner,  who  d.  young. 

3.  Maria  Scribner,  b.  in  1816,  m.  Zalmon  S.    Mead,  a  merchant 

in  New  York. 

4.  Julia  Scribner,  b.  about  1S18,  who  d.  young. 

5.  William  Scribner,  b.  Jan.  20,  1820,  grad.  at  Princeton,  studied 

theology  there,  and  was  settled  at  Stroudsbur^r,  Pa.,  and  at 
Red  Bank,  N.  J.  He  resigned  the  ministry  on  account  of  the 
failure  of  his  health,  and  removed  to  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  where 
he  d.  March  3,  1864.  He  in.  Caroline  E.  Hitchcock  and  had 
two  sons  by  her,  John  and  William  Scribner  ;  and  he  in.,  for 
his  second  wife,  Julia  Sayre,  and  had  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters by  that  marriage. 

6.  Charles  Scribner,  b.  Feb..  1S21.  grad.  at  Princeton,  in  same 

class  with  his  bro.  William.  He  was  the  well-known  book- 
seller and  publisher  in  New  York,  and  d.  when  abroad,  in 
Switzerland,  Aug.  26,  1871.  He  m.  Emma  Blair,  of  Blairstown, 
N.  J.,  and  had  four  children  :  John  Blair,  Emma,  Charles,  and 

*  Eor  some  brief  sketches  of  early  Hawley  *"=  r     in  tv^  country,  and  of  value  to  the  investigators 

of  Scribner  lineage,  see  pp.  624-5  of  the  History  >ht  Family.      1.    5  Ha 

(Rev.Tb   mas  Hawley,  of  Ridg                    i  •-.•'.. 
and  the  .son  of  Captain  J    >e|      Hav  .  y,  .  t  Harvard   in  1674,  and   of  Lydia   Marsh  Ji,  t  >rn  Feb- 
ruary 18.  1655-3                                                          Marshall,  of  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  of  Mary  W  ter 
of  Lieutenant  D   •■    I   ■     Ison.     I    r  Dwig    t  kii       .  je  ac       ntofDwightde     endants  (descendants 
of  Captain  Henry  Dwight,  of  Hatfiel  I,  Mass.),  pp.  620      .   . 


1885.]  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County,  N.   V.  2  s 

Arthur.     Charles  and  Arthur  compose  the  present  well-known 
firm  of  lt  Charles  Scribner's  Sons." 

7.  Henry  Scribner,    b.  June  28,  1822,  nl.  Abigail    Farnam,  and 

had  children,    George  and  Minnie,      lie   was   a  lumber    mer- 
chant in  Des  Moines,  la.,  where  he  d.  Sept.  10,  1882. 

8.  Jane  Scribner,  b.  Nov.  28,  1824,  m.  Judge  Samuel  P,  Wisner, 

of  Cedar  Rapids,  la.,  and  has  two  sons  and  a  dau. 

9.  Julia  Scribner,  b.  about  1824,  m.  Clinton  Hitchcock,   a   mer- 

chant in  NewYork  City,  and  had  three  daughters.  She  d.  in  1865. 

10.  Walter  Scrilner,  b.  about  1826,  d.  soon. 

11.  Walter  Scribner,  2d,  b.  about  1S28,  m.  Harriet  Kimball.    He 

was  a  druggist  in  Rock  Island,  111.,  and  returned  to  NewYork  to 

reside   in  his  later   years,  and  d.  there  Oct.  15,  1873.      He  has 

two  sons  now  living  in  New  York  City,  Frederic  and  Frank. 

To   Mr.  George  W.  Schuyler,   of  Ithaca,  the  writer  is  largely  indebted 

[<>x  many  of  the  details  of  Scribner  history  here  furnished.      But   he   could 

not  be  induced  by  any  urgent  solicitations  to  be  more  complete  and  full  in 

such  communications  that  were  greatly  desired. 

(To  be  continued.)  /  (a  \ '**"    \ 

" [2 

%    /[ 

EARLY  SETTLERS  OF  ULSTER  COUNTY,  X.  Y. — --' 


. 


Compiled  by  G.  H.  Van  Wagenen,  of  Rye,  N.  Y. 

(From  the  Church  P.ecorcs  of  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  and  from  other  sources.) 


The  Elting  Family,  First  Three  Generations. 

Jan  Elten,  or  Eltynge,  the  ancestor  probably  of  all  the  families  of  the 
name  of  Eiting  in  the  State  of  NewYork,  was  born  at  Switchelaer  in  the 
Province  ofprenthe,  in  Holland,  July  29,  1632,  old  style,  and  was  son  of 
Roeloffe  and  Aeltje  Elten. 

1  have  not  found  any  record  of  his  arrival  in  this  country,  but  in  1663, 
lie  was  living  in  FJatbush  and  working  as  a  carpenter  on  the  church  there. 
(Bergen's  "  Kings  County  Settlers,''  p.  108).  From  there  he  moved  to  Ulster 
County,  and  in  1677  was  a  witness,  with  his  wife,  to  the  Indian  Deed  to 
Lewis  Dubois  and  others,  for  land  at  New  Paltz  (Documents  Colonial 
History,  vol.  13,  p.  507).  He  married  Jacomynte  Slegt  (or  Slecht), 
daughter  of  Cornells  Barents  Slegt,  born  in  Woerden,  in  South  Holland, 
eighteen  miles  from  Leyden.  She  had  been  twice  married  before,  first  to 
Cornells  Barents  Kunst,  at  Kingston,  April  29,  1663  ;  second  to  Gerrit 
Foeken,  at  Kingston,  October  27,  1668.  The  date  of  marriage  to  Jan 
Elting  I  do  not  rind  on  record.  By  these  two  marriages  she  had  four  chil- 
dren, whose  names  appear  in  the  deed  given  further  on. 

In  1679,  for  some  reason  unknown.  Jan  Elting  takes  great  pains  to 
prove  his  identity,  both  by  his  own  oath  and  that  of  several  of  his  former 
townsmen  from  Holland,  and  by  a  cenifkate  from  the  Church  in  the  place 
of  his  birth. 

These  documents  are  important  as  giving  us  reliable  information  of  Jan 
Elting's  birth  and  parentage,  which  could  not  probably  be  obtained  from 
any  other  source. 


26  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County,  N.   Y.  [Jan., 

In  16S6,  Jan  Elton  was  one  of  the  partners  in  the  Arie  Roosa  patent  in 
Dutchess  County.  The  other  partners  were,  Gerrit  Aartsen,  Arie  Roosa, 
Hendrick  Kip,  and  Jacob  Kip.  This  patent  contained  about  one  thou- 
sand five  hundred  acres,  opposite  the  Rondout  Creek  and  extending  along- 
the  bank  of  the  Hudson  River. 

Jan  Elting's  share  of  the  property  was  purchased  from  his  heirs  in  17 13 
by  Gerrit  Aartsen  (E.  M.  Smith's  "  History  of  Rhinebeck  ").  The  will  of 
Jan  Elting  does  not  appear  on  record  at  New  York  or  Albany. 

Certificate  No.  i. 

To-day,  the  10th  of  Oct.,  1679,  appeared  before  us,  Capt.  James  Hub- 
bard. Elbert  Elbertsen  StoothofT  and  Jacques  Corteljou,  at  the  request  of 
Jan  Elten,  a  resident  of  Kingston,  now  about  to  depart  for  the  Fatherland, 
the  Worshipful  Steven  Coerten,  aged  79,  Willem  Roeloffs,  aged  60,  Jan 
Strycker,  Armorer,  aged  64,  Jan  Sebringh,  aged  48,  Coert  Stevensen,  aged 
42,  all  natives  of  the  province  of  Urenthe,  who  declare  that  the  above 
named  petitioner  is  the  lawful  son  of  Roelof  Elten,  by  his  wife,  Aeltje 
Elten,  of  the  village  of  Swigtel,  in  said  land  of  Drenthe.  They  further  de- 
clare to  the  Lest  5  their  information,  that  they  have  always  known  him  as 
an  honest  and  virtuous  man,  and  that  as  far  as  they  can  remember  they 
never  knew  any  other  man  of  the  same  name.  They  are  willing  to  con- 
firm their  testimony  by  a  solemn  oath.  In  witness  of  the  truth,  they  sign 
this  with  their  own  hands  at  New  Amersfoort,  in  Long  Island,  in  America. 

Steven  Coerten, 
Wm.  Roeloffs — mark  -f, 
Jan  Strycker,  Gunsmith, 
Jan  Sueberingh, 
Coert  Stevensen. 

Testified  in  presence  of  us  underwritten  under  oath  : 
J.  Hubbard,  Justice, 
Elbert  Elbertsen,  Justice, 
James  Corteljou,  Justice. 

(New  York  Colonial  Manuscripts,  vol.  28,  folios  135  and  136;  page 
80.  Calendar  of  English  Manuscripts.) 


Certificate  No.  2. 

"  A  certificate  concerning  Jan  Elten  alias  Elting  and  his  oath  there- 
upon sent  by  him  into  Holland,  attested  Oct.  13,  1679.  Hee  went  for 
England."     (Endorsement  of  Certificate.) 

"  New7  Yorke  on  Manhatans  Island 
in  America,  Oct.  13,  1679. 

"This  day  appeared  before  mee,  Jan  EUen  alias  Eltynge,  and  tooke 
his  oath  upon  the  Holy  Evangelist  of  Almighty  God,  that  hee  is  and  hath 
allwayes  been  taken  and  reputed  to  bee  the  person  whom  those  within 
specifyde  have  certifyed  their  knowledge  of  before  ye  three  Justices  of  the 


JS35-J  The  Siting   Family.  2J 

Peace,  and  that  hce  never  knew  or  heard  of  any  other  of  his  name  to  bee 
the  son  of  Roeloffe  Elten  his  Father  and  Aeltien,  his  Mother. 

"  Matthias  Nicolls, 

11  See.  of  the  Provhiee  of  New  Yorke." 

(New  York  Colonial    Manuscripts,  vol.   28,  folios  135  and  136;    p.  So, 
Calendar  of  English  Manuscripts.) 

For  the  copy  of  this  certificate  I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Fernow,  keeper 
of  the  manuscripts  in  the  State  Library  at  Albany.  Mr.  Bergen,  in  his 
"  Kings  County  Settlers,"  page  10S,  refers  to  this  manuscript  as  statii 
Jan  Elten  was  "the  son  of  Roeloffe  Elting,  or  Elten,  and  Strycker  Sc- 
oring," whereas  both  certificates  state  that  his  parents  were  Roeloffe  and 
Aeltie  Elten. 


Certificate  Xo. 


o- 


From  Edmund  Eltinge,  Esq.,  of  New  Paltz,  N.  Y.,  certificate  of  church 

membership  for  Jan  Eltinge,  Beyle,  16S0.  The  original  certificate  in 
Dutch,  now  in  the  possession  of  Edmund  Eltinge,  Esq.,  of  New  Paltz, 
uisici  iuua.ii),  Las  uccu  tid.ii3id.Lcci  by  Lt.  hj,  13.  O.  Caliaghan. 

Extract  from  the  Church  Records  at  Beyle  : 

'•Jan  Eltinge,  son  of  Roelif  and  Aaltje  Eltinge,  was  born  at  Switche- 
laer,  a  dependency  of  Beyle  ;  situate  in  the  Province  of  Drenthe,  in  the 
year  1632,  on  the  29th  of  July,  old  style  and  hath  received  Christian  . 
tism  at  the  hands  of  our  Rev.  Mr.  and  Father  in-Law  Dr.  Johannes  Beeit- 
snyder,  and  was  named  Jan  Eltinge.  Born  of  honest  and  virtuous  parents 
who  have  always  sustained  a  good  reputation  among  us,  and  whose  kindred 
is  still  numerous.  Whereof,  he  having  requested  our  testimony,  we  have 
therefore  not  been  able  to  refuse  the  same  to  him,  but  have  granted  him 
this  our  certincate  in  order  that  he  may  avail  himself  thereof  according  to 
circumstances. 

"Done  at  Beyle  20th  Jan.  16S0. 

GUILIELMUS  HOFSTEDE, 

Eccls'  Beylensis  at  Classis 
of  Meppelanae,  p.  t.  Deputatis. 

"  Maria  Eltinge,  his  sister  is  born  the  28th  Feb.,  in  the  year  1630,  old 
style. 

"Bartelt  Eltinge,  his  brother,  is  born  the  iSth  Dec,  in  the  year 
1631." 

Quit  Claim  Deed. 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whom  this  present  writing  shall  come,  Roe- 
loff  Eltinge  of  the  Xew  Paltz,  in  the  Co.  of  Ulster  and  Province  of  New 
York  in  America,  Yeoman,  Cornelius  Eltinge  of  Marbletown  in  sd.  co., 
yeoman,  William  Eltinge  of  Kingston  in  sd.  co.,  Carpenter,  Ger.  Yan 
Wagenen,  of  Kingston,  aforesaid  yeoman,  Geertje  Hall  widow  of  Thomas 
Hah  late  of  Raretan  in  the  Co.  of  Somerset  in  N.  J.,  Gerrit  Wynkoop  and 


Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  Comity,  JV.  Y. 


[Jan., 


Hilletje  his  wife  of  Philadelphia  in  Penn.,  yeoman,  Jannetje  Newkerk 
widow  of  Cornelius  Newkerk  late  of  Hurley,  Ulster  Co.,  Henry  Pawling 
and  Tacomynte  Ins  wife  of  Philadelphia  in  Perm.,  yeoman.  Greeting. 

Now  know  ye,  that,  whereas  Jan  Eltinge,  late  of  Hurley  in  Ulster  Co., 
did  by  his  last  will  and  Testament  bequeath  to  his  five  children,  RoelofV, 
Cornelius,  William,  Geertje  Hall  and  Altje  Eltinge,  mother  of  the  afore- 
said Gerrit  Van  Wagenen,  one  just  half  of  his  Estate,  and  the  other  half  to 
his  wife's  nine  children,  viz.,  Jannetje  Newkerk,  Hilletje  Wynkoop, 
Jacomynte  Pawling,  RoelofT,  Cornelius  and  William  Eltinge,  Gerrit  Van 
Wagenen,  Geertje  Hall,  Tryntje,  late  wife  of  Solomon  Dubois  of  New 
Paltz,  and  in  consideration  the  children  of  said  Dubois  of  their  just  right 
should  be  assured,  the  said  [here  follow  the  names  of  the  heirs]  have 
granted,  etc.,  to  the  children  of  said  Dubois,  one  just  ninth  part  in  the  lot 
No.  5,  lying  in  Dutchess  Co.  over  against  Rondout  Creek,  bounded 
Northerly  by  lot  of  Evert  Van  Wagenen,  Easterly  by  a  creek,  Southerly  by 
land  of  Evert  Roosa,  Westerly  by  Hudson  River.  Also  a  just  eighteenth 
part  in  a  certain  Meadow  commonly  called  Jacomynte's  rly.  To  have, 
hold,  etc. 

August   2,    1729,        Sealed  and    de- 
livered in  presence  of — 
johannes  schepmoes. 
Hendrik  Fruyn. 
Nicholas  Hofman. 
John  Cock. 
George  Hall. 
John  Hall. 
Henry  Stevens. 


Henry  Pawling. 
Gerrit  Wynkoop. 
jAXNEijE  Newkerk. 
Hilletje  "Wynkoop. 
Jacomyntie  Pawling. 
Roeloef  Eltinge. 
Cornelius  Eltinge. 
Willem  Eltinge. 
Ger.  Van  Wagenen. 


second  generation. 


Children  of  Jan  El  ting,  No.  1,  and  Jacomyntje  Slecht : 

2.  Geertje   (Gertrude),   b.  at    Hurley,  living  at    Kingston  ;    m.  at 

Kingston,  July  6,  1699,  Thomas  Hall,  b.  at  Kingston,  and 
living  at  Marbletown  (Ch.  Marriage  Records). 

The  baptisms  of  Geenje  Elting  and  Thomas  Hall  are  not 
on  record  at  Kingston.  In  the  deed  given  in  1729,  Thomas 
Hall  is  mentioned  as  of  Raritan,  Somerset  Co.,  N.  J. 

3.  Aaltje    (Adeline),  b.   at    Hurley,  bapt.   not   on  record ;  m.    at 

Kingston,  Oct.  26,  1695,  Aart  Gerritse  (Van  Wagenen).  b. 
about  1670 — his  baptism  is  not  on  record — oldest  child  of 
Gerrit  Aartse  and  Clara  Pels. 

Aart  Gerritse  d.  before  1699,  for  Barent  Van  Benthuysen  m. 
at  Kingston,  April  17,  1699,  Aaltje  Elting,  widow  of  Aart  Ger- 
rits,  deceased.  Aaltje  died  soon  after,  for  "  Barent  van  Ben- 
thuysen, widower  of  Aaltje  Elting,  deceased,  m.,  April  21,  i7or, 
Jannetje  Van  Wagenen,"  daughter  of  Gerrit  Aartsen  and  Clara 
Pels.  Aart  Gerrits  and  Aaltje  Elting  left  one  child,  b.  Jan.  23, 
1697,  and  named  Gerrit  Van  Wagenen.  For  Aaltje  Eltir.g"s 
descendants,  see  New  York  G.  and  B.  Record,  vol.  8,  p.  131, 
and  <;  Van  Wagenen  Genealogy." 


iSSf-]  The  lilting  Family. 


29 


4.  Roeloff,  b.  at  Hurley,  bapt.  at  I "  ii      I   n,  Oct.  27,  1678  ;  spon- 

sors, Hendrick  and  Elsje   Slegt.     Married  at   Kingston,  June 

13,  1703,  Sara  Dubois,  b.  at  NewPaltz,  bapt.  at  Kingston.  June 
20,  16S2,  dau.  of  Abram  Dubois  (b.  at  .Mannheim,  in  1 
one  of  the  twelve  patentees  of  New  Paltz)  and  Margaret  Deyo 
(see  "Dubois  Reunion.''  p.  97K 

The  will  of  Roeloff  Elting,  ofXew  Paltz,  dated  Oct.  29.  174". 
is  on  record  in  New  York,  in  Liber  16,  p.  21S  of  Wills.  His 
wife  was  living  and  his  son  Abraham  deceased  at  that  date. 

5.  Cornelis,   b.  at   Hurley,  bapt.    at   Kingston,    Dec.    29,    16S1  ; 

sponsors,  Jochem  and  Engeltje  Hendricks.     Married  at  Kii 
ton,  Sept.  3,  1704,  Rebecca  Van   Meeteren,  b.   at  M    rbl  ;to\vn, 
bapt.   at   Kingston,  April    26.    1686,  dau.   of  Joos:   Janse  Van 
Meeteren    'born    in  Gelderland,    living    in  Marbletown)    and 
Sara  Dubois. 

I  do  not  find  Cornelius  Elting' s  will  on  record  in  New  York 
or  Albany,  nor  can  I  find  at  Kingston  the  marriages  of  any  of 
his  children. 

6.  "Wilt. la:i.  bapt.   at  Kingston,  Jan.  19,    16S5:  ,  Magda- 

lena  Crispel  and  Jochem   Hendricks.     MarriecLfdate  not  re- 
corded^  Ta :     I,e  Sn'<?ur,  bant    at  Ktnerston,   Mar.  3,   16S0, 

dau.  of  Hillebrand  Le  Sueur  and  Elsje  Jurians,  dau.  of  Jurian 
Tappen. 

"  Francois  Le  Sueur,  who  left  the  town  in  1663,  was  ances- 
tor of  the  families  cf  Le  Sueur  and  Lozier,  now  mostly  s 
in  Xew  York  City  and  Bergen  Co.,  X.  J.  Francois  first  lived 
in  Flatbush  after  coming  to  Manhattan,  and  in  1649  m-  Jan_ 
netje,  dau.  of  Hillebrand  Pietersen,  of  Amsterdam — his  son, 
Hillebrand.  m.  Elsje,  dau.  of  Jurian  Tappen,  of  Esopus  (Mar. 
n.  1688),  but  soon  died,  leaving  apparently  but  one  child,  Jan- 
netje,  who  m.  Win.  Elting"  (Riker's  "Harlem,"  p.  217). 

The  will  (in  Dutch)  of  "  William  Eltinge  of  Kingston.*'  dated 
Dec.  7,  1740,  proved  Feb.  13,  1743.  is  recorded  in  New  York, 
in  Liber  12,  p.  212  of  Will: 


THIRD    GENERATION. 

Children  of  Geert;e  Elting  Xo.  2  and  Thomas  Hall  : 

7.  Jaerds,  bapt.  at  Kingston.  Mar.  17.  1720  ;  sponsors.  Jaerds  and 

Mary  Hall. 

8.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  at  Kingston,   Nov.  16,   1701  ;  sponsors,  Wil- 

liam and  Catharina  De  Meyer  and  Elizabeth  Hall.     Probably 
married  Jacobus  Elting.  Xo.  31. 

9.  Jan,   bapt.    at   Kingston,   Oct.  31,    1703;  sponsors,  Roelof  and 

Jacomynte  Elting. 

10.  Jacomynte,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Mar.  17,  1706;  sponsors,  Mat- 

thew Slegt  and  Annetje  Hogeboom. 

Children  of  Roelof  Elting  Xo.  4  and  Sara  Dubois : 

11.  Johannes,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Sept.  3,  1704;  sponsors,  Cornelis 

Elting  and  Rebecca  De  la  Mater.     Married  at  Kingston,  April 


^O  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County •,  X.   Y.  [Jan., 

24.  172S,  \Taritje  Gemaar,  probably  dau.  of  Pieter  Gemaar  and 
Hester  Hasbrouck,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  24,  1703.  Married 
second  at  Kingston,  Jan.  24,  1734,  Jannetje  Jansen,  widow  of 
Charles  Bettis,  and  dan.  of  Thomas  Jansen  and  Mayke  Bogard, 
bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  9,  1704. 

The  will  (in  Dutch)  of  "Johannes  Eltinge  of  Mormcls,"  in 
Ulster  Co.,  dated  Sept.  4,  1750,  is  recorded  in  New  York,  in 
Liber  19,  p.  283  of  Wills.  He  mentions  his  wife  Jannetje,  and 
his  oldest  son  Petrus,  to  whom  he  leaves  his  great  Bible — and 
his  other  children  Sara.  RoelorT,  and  Maike.  Tins  son  Petrus  I 
do  not  find  in  the  church  records  of  baptisms  at  Kingston. 

12.  Jacomyntje   (Jemima),   bapt.   at    Kingston,    Afar.    17,    1706; 

sponsors,  Abram  Dubois  and  Jacomyntje  De  Kunst.  Married 
William  Koddebeck,  May  2,  1733,  at  Kingston. 

13.  Ar;RA:.f.  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  31,  170S;  sponsors,  William 
Siting  and  Jannetje  Lesier  (Le  Sueur).  Married  at  Kingston, 
Mar.  4.  1732.  Sara  Persen,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  10,  1710, 
dau.  of  Matthys  Persen  and  Tanna  Winne.  Abram  was  de- 
ceased in  1745. 

14.  Josiah,   bapt.  at   Kingston,    Oct.  12,    17 12;  sponsors,    Abram 

Dubois.  Margaret  Deyo,  Gerrit  Wynkoop,  and  Hilletje  Ger- 
ritts.  Married  at  Kingston,  July  14,  1734,  Magdakna  Dubois, 
dau.  of  Solomon  Dubois  and  Tryntje  Gerritse,  bapt.  at  King- 
ston, April  15,  1705  ('•'  Dubois  Reunion,"  p.  99). 

His  will,  dated  April  4,  1767,  is  recorded  in  Xew  York,  in 
Liber  37,  folio  27  of  Wills. 

15.  Margrietjex,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  May  iS,  171S;  sponsors, 
Noah  and  Catryntje  Dubois.  Married  at  Kingston,  Jan.  22, 
1742,  Abraham  Bevier,  Jr.,  b.  at  Wawarsing. 

^  16.  Noach,  bapt.  at  Kingston.  Dec.  3.  1721  ;  sponsors,  Johannes 
Hardenberg  and  Catrina  Rutse,  his  wife.  Married  at  Kingston, 
Oct.  16,  1742,  Jacomyntje  Eking,  the  dau.  of  William  Eltinge, 
No.  6.  They  had  one  child,  Sarah,  bapt.  Mar.  29,  1747,  who 
m.   Nov.    15,   1765,    Derick  D.  Wynkoop  ("  Wynkoop  Gen., " 

P-  52)- 

The  will  of  "  Noach  Eltinge  of  New  Paltz,*'  dated  April  5, 

1775,  is  recorded  in  New  York,  in  Liber  ^^,  folio  239  of  Wills. 
He  mentions  his  wife,  Jacomyntje,  his  niece,  Annetje,  dan.  of 
his  brother-in-law,  Jacobus  Ekir.g,  his  son-in-law,  Derick  Wyn- 
koop, granddaughters.  Cornelia  and  Geertje  Wynkoop,  and 
Thomas,  son  of  Jacobus  Elting.  Signs  his  name  i;  Noach" 
Eltinge. 

Children  of  Cornells  Elting  No.  5  and  Rebekka  Van  Meeteren  : 

17.  Cornelis,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Aug.  iS,  1706;  sponsors,  Roelof 
Elting  and  Annetje  Hogeboom. 

18.  Isaac,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  24,  17CS;  sponsors,  Daniel  and 
Lena  Dubois. 

19.  Cornelis,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  10,  1710;  sponsors,  Willem 

Elting  and  Jannetje  Lesier. 


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20.  Jacomynte,  bapt. at  Kingston,  July  27.  1712;  5;  onsors,  Roelof 

Elting  and  ;         .     j  Kunst. 

21.  Sara,   bapt  at    Kingston,    Feb.  6.   1715:   sponsors,    Jm   Van 
Meet* Jan  I  ]       ytje  Zu     md. 

22.  Ezekiel,  bapt.  at  Kingston,      11      16,  17:7:  sponsors,  Genit 
Van  Wage:/  '       Irik;         :  :>!. 

23.  Elizabeth,  bapt.  at   Kingston,  .'  ag.   50,  17:9:  sponsors, 
mas  Janse  and  Maai  :  1a 

24.  Annaatji  :".  1 :    t.  at  Kingst   :..  Dec.  31,  1721  \  sponsors,  Solo- 

d  Dubois  and  Tryntje  Gerritts. 

25.  Alt:-      bs    .,   at   Kingston,    May  3,    1724;   sponsors,   A::: 
Slegt  anil  Neeltje  1  Dgaard. 

26.  Gideon,  bar:,  at  Kingston,   Oct  13,   1 7 2 S  ;  sponsors,  Johan- 
nes El  ting  and  Maria  Gemaar. 


Children  of  William  Elting,  Xo.  6,  and  Jannetje  Lesier  (Le  Sueur): 

27.  Jan.  bar:,  a:   Kingston,   Feb.  n,  1709;   sponsors,  Roe       '  ]  .- 

ting  and  Sara  Da.  .:.-  ;  married,  Nov.  15,  1730,  ^Rachel  Whit- 
aker,  daughter  of  Tames  Whitaker  and  Elizabeth  Tits  .  '  aj  u 
at  Kingston,  ]  an.  1 :.  1  709,  die  i  ]\  ly  2  7.  1 746  ;  :.-./  rried,  sec- 
ond, Sept.  3.  1747,  Rachel  Hue  rouck,  born  Nov.  n,  1715, 
died  April  19,  1756,  daughter  of  Joseph  Hasbrouck  and  Elsje 
Schoonrcaker. 

Jan  Elting  died  March  7.  1762  (Bible  Record).  His  will, 
dated  Jan.  12,  1760,  is  recorded  in  New  York,  in  Liber  23, 
folio  32S  of  Wills. 

28.  Elsten,    bapt  at    Kir     ::n.    Sept  9.    1711  :  sponsors.    .'.    - 
La  Meter   and   Elsje  Tappen;   married   at   Kingston,  Oct.  ::. 
1 734.  Isaac  Van  Kampen. 

29.  Wiuliam,    bap:,  a:    Kingston.    Sept.  6,  1713:   sponsors, 

V\Vnkoop  and  Kiiletie  Gerritts ;  not  mentioned  in  hi<  father's 
-.  ill 

30.  Jacomyntjen,   bapt  a:   Kingston,    Nov.  27.    1715:  sponsors, 

Solomon  Dubois  ana  Tryntje  Gerritts  :  married  Noah  Elting, 
son  of  Roeloff  Elting  and  Sara  Dubois. 

31.  Jacobus,   bapt  a:  Kingston,   Dec.  15,  1717  :  sponsors,   Aldert 

Kierstedc  aa  '.  a  riantje  De  la  Mater;  married  Elizabeth  Hall, 
Xo.  S. 

32.  Petrtjs,   bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  20.  1720:  sponsors,   Hans 

Kierstede    and    Ariantje    Tappen  ;     not    mentioned    in     his 
father's  will. 
II,   Hexd?.::ys,    bapt.    at   Kingston.    Varca   25,    1722;    sponsors, 
Cornelius  Elting  aad  Rebeu.-ta  Van  Meeteren. 

34.  Jannetjen,  bapt  at  Kingston,  April  26.  1724;  sponsors,  Jo- 
hannes De  la  Matei  and  Christina  V  -  nkc  :  p. 

35.  Annaatjen,  bapt  at  Kingston,  Dec.  18,  17:0:  sponsors,  Da- 
vid  De  la  Mater  aad  Ariantje  Tappen. 


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ders. 
T  >hannes    Vrel    '      Enogh. 
Maritje  Krigic  -. 

Johannes   Bant,   Wil-  _  Aannes. 

lemyni  e  Philips. 
L  :  iwerens       Vai    Bei  jam  n. 

Hoek,   Johann  3 


Luykas  Stevens      Teiintj 
Catharina  VanDyk. 


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IVessel  Van    N       lei 
Elizabeth  .  h :...;. 

J:.:.  Van  H  - . .-.  :.:  Ca  th  .- 
rina,  5    h.  \totl. 

He  irikus  Va  ler  Spie- 
gel, A  in;  tje   3    h     :.    . 

Pietei  : '   er  en  Battje,  5. 

h.  •■  re  .. 

Pieter   Bant,    Marretje 

Bant,  5.  E  .  iter. 
Barnardus   Smith,   Anatje 
C  alevelt,  £.  h.  v. 

Michiel   Janse,    Olfert 

Djk. 

Fil  '  Schuyler,  Ti  ntje 
]  - :  kei  s. 

Johannes  Janse,  &  Jo- 
hanna,  5.  r..  v. 

Philippus     Van    \     - 

t  arg   Van    I  jssum, 
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Everardiis  I  gardus, 
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dito  16. 

ciito  23. 

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dito  5. 


dito  9. 

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Maart  1 
dito  16. 


dito  19. 


April  6. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Jeremias  Borres,  Cor-  Jeremias. 
nelia  Eckeson. 

John  Broad  ids,  AT  aria  Maria. 

Van  der  Spiegel. 
M  a t th  e  us     Benson,  Tryntje. 

Catharin a  P r o- 

voost.   . 
Ed  Card    Blagge,    Jo-  Judith. 

hanna  Vikkers. 
Potiwelus  Mouritz,  Jacob, 

Margrietje    Ketel- 

tas. 
Samuel  Philips,  Aeltje  Samuel. 

Dame. 
John    Anderson,    Ju-  Styntje. 

dith  Janse. 
Casparus  Blank.  An-  Catharina. 

genietje  Post. 
Leonard  Leuwis,  Eli-  Leonard. 

zabethHertenberg. 
Sybrant  Brouvrer,  Sa-  Jacob. 

ra  Webbers. 
Nathan    Daley,   Sara  Johannes. 

Huvsman. 
Wessel  Wesselse,  Ma-  Tryntje. 

rytje  ten  Yk. 
Johannis  Van   Vorst,  Marytje. 

Antje  Harks. 

Augustus    Jay,  Anna  Anna. 

Maria  Beiard. 
Thomas  Sikkels,  Jan-  Johannes. 

netje  Brevoort. 
Marten    Dufress,  Ju-  Martha. 
.    dith  Bant. 
Edmond  Thomas,  So-  Elizabeth. 

fia  de  Wirt. 
Thomas    Pel,    Aaltje  Samuel. 

Beek 
Isaac  Bratt,  Dievertje  Isaac. 

Wessels. 
Hendrik    Franse  Hendrik. 

Reuth,     Hendrik  Samuel. 

Franse  Reuth. 
Lazerus  Barow,  Mar-  Pieter  Laze- 

tha  Coderett.  rus. 

Vredrik  Fyn,  Johan-  Hester. 

na  Van  't  Zant. 

James  Manney,  Anna  Frausoa. 
Finsang. 


GETUYGEN. 

Vincent  de  Lamontanje, 
Jannetje  Eckeson. 

Hendrikus  Van  der  Spie- 
gel, Saratje  Thang. 

Samson  Bensen,  Cathari- 
no  Provoost. 

Johannes  Edsall,  Catha- 
rina Clouwes. 

Abraham  Keteltas,  Jan- 
netje Mouritz. 

Reni     Remsen,    Martha 

Simpson. 
Jan  Woiiterse,  Maria,  h. 

v.  van  Jan  Andriesse. 
Cornells   Post.   Catlvntje 

Post. 
Abraham  Keteltas,  Gees- 

je  Liewis,  Wede. 
Jacobus  Kip,  Antje  Brou- 

wers. 
Nicolaas  Daley,  Johanna 

Bogardus. 
Coenraat  ten  Yk,  Tryntje 

Wessels. 
Tennis  Quik,  Anna  Leiir- 

se,  h.  v.  van  Johannes 

Janse. 
Samuel      Beiard,     Judith 

Beiard,  j  :   doght. 
Jan  Willemse  Rome,  Ma- 

ritje,  s.  h.  vrou. 
Pieter    Bant,    Margrietje 

Bant. 
Johannes  ten  Yk,  Wyntje 

Aarsen. 
Balthazar  de  Hart,  Catha- 

lina  Kip. 
Salomon    Van  de    Boog, 

Maritje  Wessels. 

Belitje  Christiaanse. 

Pieter  Casjee,  Hester 
Foley. 

Johannes  Fyn,  Johannes 
Van  't  Zant,  Susanna 
Witsengaem. 

Jeremiah  Maney,  Eliza- 
beth Mainerd. 


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[Jan., 


dito  23. 

dito  27. 

dito  %o. 
May  4. 


dito  7. 

[307] 
May  14. 


dito  18. 
dito  25. 


dito  29. 
Juny  1. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Cornells    de   Peister,  Anna. 
Maritje  Banker. 

Johannes       Narbury,  Samuel. 

Angenietj  e  Pro- 

voost. 
CornelusTurk,  Eliza-  Neeltje. 

beth  Van  Schaik. 

Meindert  Burger,  Sa-  Jannetje. 
ra  Yedesse. 

Jan    David,     Lowise  Petrus. 

Strer.g. 
Daniel  Pietersen,  An-  Pieter. 

na  Maria  Plevier. 
Johannes  de  Freest,   Marvtie. 

Catharina  Rave- 
stein, 
Jeremiah  Manev,  Jeremias, 

Margreta  Finsang. 
Fincent    de    Lamon-  Rachel. 

tanje,    Ariaantje 

Eckeson. 
Joost  Lynsen,   Eliza-  Anneke. 

beth  Henejon. 
Jan    Lathen,    Maria  Elizabeth, 

Koning. 
Tacob  Nicolaas,  Maria  Jacob. 

Moll. 

Steven  Richard,  Ma-  Stephanas. 

ria  van  Brug. 
Thomas  Eckeson,  Theunis. 

Elizabeth    Slinger- 

lant. 
Adriaan  Van  Schaik,  Jacob. 

Jannetje     T  h  0- 

masse. 
Willem  Grant,  Rachel  Willem. 

Hartenberg. 
Steven  Kent,  Abigail  Rebecka. 

Miles. 
Pieter  Bant,   Martha  Johannes. 

White. 
John   Coeper,  Anne-  Annetje. 

tje  Van  Vorst. 
Jacob  Wiltze,  Abigail  Hendrik. 

Faggissen. 
Alexander    Fenix,  Hester. 

Hester  Van  Vorst. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannes   Banker,   Anna 

de  Peister. 
Abraham  Wandell,  Geer- 

truy  Staats. 

Johannes  Bogert,  Xeeltje 
Stiile,  h.  v.  van  Hend\ 
V:  Schaik. 

Tennis  Iedesse,  Harma- 
nus  van  Gelder,  Teutje 
van  Gelder. 

Pieter  Savouret,  Charelott 
Sibon. 

Abraham  Mesier,  Eliza- 
beth, s.  h.  vrou. 

Hendrik  Kermer,  Maritje 
Rollegom,  s.  h.  v. 

Fransoa  Finsang,  Magda- 
lena  Maney. 

Volkert  Heermans,  Elisa- 
beth Montanje. 

Adriaan  Hooglant,  Anna- 
tje,  Syn  huys  Vrou. 

Alexander  Lam,  Grietje 
Koning. 

Meindert  Steen  en  Engel- 
tje,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Willem  Teller,  Margareta 

van  Briig. 
Abraham  Kip,  Xeeltje 

Slingerlant. 

Jacob  Thomasse,  Klaasje 

Van  Schaik. 

Jan  Waaldrom,   Cornelia, 

s.  h.  vrou. 
Pieter  Van  Velse,  Chris- 
tina de  Witt. 
Johannes  Bant  en  Wilie- 

myntie,  s.  h.  vrou. 
Alexander    Fenix,    Geer- 

truv  Van  Vorst 
Hendrik  Wiltzen,  Styntje 

Arianse. 
Isaac  Kip,   Elizabeth 

Blom,  h.  v.  van  Jan 

Montanje. 


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dito  2. 
dito  18. 


dito  22. 

dito  29. 

July  2. 
duo  27. 


OUDERS. 

Albert  Loiiwe,  Susan- 


KINDKRS. 

Jan. 


na  Lamatre. 
Daniel  Meynor,Eliza-  Daniel, 
beth  Finsang. 


dito  30. 
Augustus  3. 

dito  6. 

[308] 
Augustus  10. 


Pieter  Bos,  Susanna 
Barentz. 

A 1  ay  k  e  Va  n   R  o  n  1  e  n . 

Jacob  Bennet,  Neel- 
tie  Beekman. 

Benjamin  Wynkoop, 
Femmetje  Van  der 
Heul. 

Hendrik  Jan  sen, 
Wy  11 1 j e  H  e n dri kz. 

Harme  Luykasse, 
A  Tina  Maria  Sippe. 

Jacob  Massing,  Ama- 
rencra  Van  G  elder. 

Pieter  Gerretse,  Jan- 
netje Slyk. 

Michiel  Faling,  Eliza- 
beth Van  Trigr, 

Willem  De,   Susanna 

Salomons. 
Samson      Ben  sen, 

Grietje  Kermer. 
Harme  Bensen,  Ael- 

tje  Bikker. 
Christoffel  Beekman, 

Marytje  Lanoy. 


Petrus. 
Hendrikus. 

Geertriiyd. 

Catharina. 

Hendrik. 
Jan. 

Elizabeth. 
Jan  netje. 
Jacobus. 

Salomon. 
Cathalina. 
Samson, 
Gerrardus. 


dito  1 


dito  17. 


Harmanus  Van   Gel-  Harmanus. 

der,     Teuntje 

Ydesse. 
Gysbert  Van  Imburg,  Johannes. 

Jannetje  Mezier. 


Bartholomews  La-  Jaquemyn- 

roex,  Geertruy  Van       tje. 

Rollegom. 
Vfedrik    Van    der  Gerretje. 

Grist,  Willem pje 

Smith. 
Robbert    Sikkels,  Elizabeth. 

Geertruy  Rednars. 
Jacob  Swaan,  Dirkje  Nicolaas, 

Schepmoes. 


GETUYGE^. 

Jan  Loiiwe,  Maritje  Roos, 
h.v.  vanLourensJanse. 

Am  an  Bonyn,  Maria 
Duboa,  h.  v.  van  Mr. 
Lafong. 

Gerret  Hyer,  Ytje  Bos, 
jong,  d°r. 

Jesaias  Van  Rom  en, 
Ariaantje  Van  Romen. 

Jan  Bennet,  Maria  Ben- 
net  oc  Antje  Van  Sig- 
cele. 

Pieter  de  Mill  &  Maria,  s. 
h.  vroii. 

Aarnout  Hendrikz,  Geer- 
tje  Klaase. 

Johannes  Burger,  Helena, 
s.  h.  vrou. 

Harmanus  Van  Gelder, 
Elizabeth  Marchalk. 

Mathys  Van  Velzen, 
Catharina  Houwarts. 

Mathys  de  Hart,  Jannetje 
Van  Trigt,  h.  v.  van 
Will.  Lods. 

Samuel  De,  Marretje  Sa- 
lomons, Wed. 

The.ophilus  Pels,  Grietje, 
de  h.v.  van  Evert  Pels. 

Ficktoor  Bikker,  Catha- 
rina Bensen. 

W  i  1  h  el  m  usKeekman, 
Catharina  Lanoy. 

Philippus  Dayley,  Ame- 
rentia  Hassing. 

Johannes  Van  Imburg  & 
Ab.  Keteltas,  Cathari- 
na Van  Kortlant,  Wed; 
van  Vredrik  Flipse. 

YedeMyer,  Catharina 
Van  Rollegom,  Wed. 

Bamardus  Smith,  Antje 
Smith,  h.  v.  van  Justes 
Bosch. 

Thomas  Sikkels,  Jannetje 
Sikkels. 

Leonard  Leuwes,  Eliza- 
beth Hertenberg,  s.  h. 
vrou. 


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dito  24. 
dito  27. 

dito  31. 


Septemb.  5. 


dito  7. 


dito  14. 


dito  2i. 
dito  24. 


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Septemb: 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Olphcrt  Sjoerts,  Hil-  Cornelus. 

legont  Luykas. 
A  am  out  Hendriks,  Gerrethol- 

Geertje  Klaase.  lart. 

Pieter  de  Mill,  Maria  Maria. 

Van  der  He  til. 
Jacob    Arentse    Ske-  Arent. 

rendregt,    Maria 

Hoist. 
Johannes    Vreden-  Annatje. 

burg,  Janna  de  La- 

montangne. 
Philippus    D  a  y  1  e  v.  Joris. 

Cornelia  A'an  G ei- 
der. 
Anthony  Kaar,  Anne-  Elizabeth. 

Ije  Huyke. 
Johannes     ten    Yk,  Herculus. 

V.*, '•;  V"Z   \ a 

Pieter  Wesselse,  An-  Pieter. 

tje  Oosterhave. 

Cornelus Aarlant,  Eli-  Cornelus. 

zabeth  Woedert. 
Elans  Kierstede,Dina  Adriaan. 

Van  Schaik. 

Johannes    Turk,   An-  Aaltje.  ' 

netje  Corneles. 
Hendrikus    My er,  Maria. 

Wyntje  Rhee. 
Johannes  Van  de  Albartus. 

Water,    Baafje 

Sippe. 
Abraham  Wendel,  Helena. 

Catharina  de  Kav. 

Pieter    Paret,    Maria  Pieter. 
Bryan. 

Adriaan  Man,  Hester  Xicolaas. 

Bording. 
Hendrik    Brevoort,  Abraham. 

Jaquemyntje  Poke. 

24.   Elbert  Aartse,  Johan-  Maritje. 

11a  ten  Yk. 
Jan  Herres,  Jannetje  Maria. 

Nessepat. 
Cosyn  Andriesse,  Annetje. 

Margrietje  Some- 

rendyk. 


GETUYGEN. 

Steve  A'an  Brakele,  Tryn- 
tje  Woed. 

Samuel  Chahaan,  Aaltje 
Jonkers. 

Albert  Klok,  Tryntje  Van 
der  Heul,  s.  h.  v. 

Frans  Reinderse,  Eliza- 
beth Jans. 

Fincent  deLamontangne, 
en  Ariaantje,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Jan  Day  ley*,  Hester  Rome, 
h.  v.  v.  Piet:  Rome. 

Abraham    Van   Dyk,    en 

Elizabeth,  s.  h.  vrou. 
PieterBrestede,  Marritje 

Aartse,  Wed. 
Barnardus    Smith,    Maria 

Salusbury,  h.  v.   v.  Jac. 

Groen. 
Isaac     Anderson,    Antje 

Waldron. 
Adriaan  Van    Schaik    & 

Gerret  Onkelbag,  Neel- 

tje  Van  Schaik. 
Pouwelus    Turk.     Aaltje 

Corneles.    • 
Dirk  Rhee,  Elsje  Sanders, 

s.  h.  vrou. 
Will  em     Bennet,    Pieter- 

nella  Kloppers. 

Pieter   A'an   Brug,.  Efrom 

Wendel.  Helena  de 

Kay,  Wed. 
B  a  r  t  h  o  1  o  m  e  u  L  e  f  o  r  d, 

Maffdalena  Paret,  s.  h. 

vrou. 
Nicolaa  Davie v,  Annatje 

de  Mill. 
Jan    Brevoort.    Tanneke 

Van  Driesse,  h.  v.  van 

Abraham  Boke. 
Coenraat    ten   Yk,  Zenr, 

Marretje  Aartse. 
Gerret  Burger,  en  Saartje, 

s.  h.  vrou. 
Theunis  Somerendyk,  An- 
tje, s.  h.  vrow. 


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37 


A°  1707. 
dito  2S. 


Ocktob:  1. 
dito  5. 
dito  8. 


dito  12. 
dito  15. 


OUDERS.                           KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Abraham  Pro v 00 st,  Hendrik.  Samuel  Staats,   Marretje 

Jannetje  Myer.  Van  der  Heul. 

Rip    V  a  !i    D  a  m,  Catharina.  Johannes   Myer,    Maria 


Saratje  Van  der 

Spiegel. 
Lammert    Van   Dyk,  Dirk. 

Marretje  Hooglant. 
Johannes    I,  a  n  g  e-  G  eertriiy. 

straat,  Antje  Pels. 
Johannes  Boke,  Mar-  Tanneke. 

retje  de  Langet, 

Barent    Van     Kleek,  Baltus. 
Antenetto    Palme- 
tier. 

Richard  Stout,  Eva  Willem. 
Tri-ex. 


Bradeth. 

Adriaan  Hooglant,  Eliza- 
beth Hooglant,  Wed. 

Cornel  us  Langestraat, 
Teuntje  Tibout. 

Frans  Langet,  Tanneke 
Van  Driese,  h.  v.  van 
Alb.  Boke. 

Baltus  Van  Kleek,  Tryn- 
tje,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Cornells  Smits,  van  Al- 
bany, Susanna  Tri-ex. 


Barnardiis  Smith,  An-  Barnardus.     Willem  Roseboom,  Anne- 


natje  Colevelt. 


T  r.  c  -'    ,    Vr         .  1      - 

Josua. 

Quik. 

dito  19. 

Adriaan  Appel,  Maria 
Ten  Yk. 

Helena. 

dito  22. 

Dirk  de    Groof,   Ari- 
aantje  Kierstede. 

Jacobus. 

Jacob   Blorn,   Mayke 

Petrus. 

Bos. 

dito  26. 

Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Mag- 
dalena  Karstens. 

Karste. 

Jacobus  Cosyn,  Aefje  Gerret. 
Aemek. 
dito  29.  Johannis  Marlings,  Aaltje. 

Rebekka    Van 
Amen. 
Jacobus    Mol,    Lidia  Catharina. 
Wen  ham. 

Pieter    Kouwenhove,  Sara. 
Wvntje  ten  Yk. 


tje  Oosterliave. 

W  il  1  e  m  B  o  g  e  r  t,  Maria 
Quik. 

Willem  Appel,  Helena,  s. 
h.  vrou. 

Gerret  Schuyler,  Eliza- 
beth Kierstede. 

Barent  Bos,  Aeltje  Blom. 

M  anus   Burger,    S tyntj  e 

Joris,  h.  v.  van  Davidt 

Cosaar. 
Theunis  Ammek,  Beiitje, 

s:  h:  vrou. 
Hendrik  Marlings,  Tryn- 

tje  Van  Alen. 

Albartus  Coenradus 
Bosch,  Catharina  Phi- 
lips, Wede. 

Coenraat  ten  Yk,  Eliza- 
beth Mezier. 


Novemb:  2.     Hendrik  Dekker,  An-  Margrietje.     Carste   Lierse,   Anaantje 


dito 


Waarner. 
Andries  Marschalk,  Geer- 
tje  Eierse. 


12. 


[310; 


tje  Quik. 

Theunis  Quik,  Vrou-  Petrus. 
tje  Herring. 

Robbert     Bossie,  Helena.    )  £  Thomas   Huik,  en   Hele- 
Catharina    Van  :•  I       na,  s:  h:  vrou,  Jan  Ek 

Aren.  Maria.      )  J       keson,  en  Maria,  s.  h. 

vrou. 


Novemb.  16.   Michiel  Stevens,  Rev- Johannes.        Abraham   Mol,  Ariaantje 
ertje  Mol.  Bais. 


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Records  of  the  Refcrmed  Dutch  Church. in  New  Y 


[Jan., 


dito  19. 

dito  23. 
dito  26. 

dito  30. 

Decern!}.  6. 
dito  10. 

dito  14. 

dito  17. 

dito  14. 


dito  25. 
dito  28. 


A0  1708. 
January  1. 


OUDERS.  K1NDERS. 

Davidt   Janse,   Antje  Magdalena. 

Croesvelt. 
Charles  Cromlyn,  Daniel. 

Anna  Singelar. 
Johannes    Wanshaar,  Johannes. 

Susanna  Nys. 
Johannes  B  u  r  g  e  r,  Engetje. 

Helena  Turk. 
Jan  Kruger,  Maria  Hencrik. 

Kuyler. 


Gerret  de  Graw,  Do-  Annatje. 

rathe  Hyer, 
Willem  Hyer,  Catha-  Jacobus. 

rina  Mol. 
W  o  1  f  e  r  t  W  e  b  b  e  r,  Joh  an  n  e  s . 

Grietje  Stille. 
John   Pamerton,    Su-  Johannes. 

sanna  uc  Feiiw. 
John  Fine  v,    Sara  Barendina. 

Hartenberg. 
Andries  Abramse,  Ja-  Andreas. 

qu  e  in  yn  tj  e  W  a  n  5  - 

haar. 
John  Finey,  Sara  Har-  Jacob. 

ten  berg. 
John  Finey,  Sara  Har-  Maria. 

tenberg. 
Willem  Elzewartb,  Johannes. 

Pieternelle     - 

Romrae. 
Pieter  Mangelse,  Jan-  Margrietje. 

netje  Duschaen. 
Anthony  de  Mill,  Ma-  Isaac. 

rytje  Provoost. 
Johannes  Myer,  Sara-  Andries. 

tje  de  Freest. 
Claas  Eogert,  Grietje  Cornelia. 

Concelje. 
Johannes  Provoost,  Johannes. 

Sara  Bayley. 
Ruthgert  YValdron,  Richard. 

Debora  Pell. 


Isaac  Garnyce,  Eli-  Jacobus. 

zabeth  Dublett 
John  Jones,  Annetje  Symon. 
Jones. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannis   Low,  Elizabeth 

Lynse. 
Daniel    Kromlyn,    Maria 

Singelar,  Weds. 
Andries  Abranise,  Jaque- 

myntje,  s.  h.  vrou. 
Cornelui  Turk,    Ante 

Burgers. 
Johannis  Van  Giese  & 

Meindert  Schuyler,  Ra- 
chel Kiiylers,  h.  v.  van 

Meinder  Schuyler. 
Isaac  Kip,  Annatje  de 

Mill. 
Abraham    Mol,    Reyertje 

Stevens. 
Cornelus  Stille,  Jannetje 

Stille,  Jonge  dr. 
KendrikBrevoort,  Catha- 

rina  Kavelier. 
Johannes  Hartenberg, 

Barendina  Hartenberg. 

Isaac   Kip,    Try n tje, 

Van  der  Heul,  h.  v.  v. 

Albert  Klok. 
Leonard  Leu  wis  Sz  Petriis 

Kip,  Francina  Tays. 
Leonard  Leuwis  5c  Petrus 

Kip  Cornelia  Walcrom. 
Cornelus  Romme,  Mary- 

tje  Davids. 

Mangel    Janse,   Antje    s. 

huys  vrou. 
Willem   Provoost.  Catha- 

rina  Provoost,  Wed. 
Jan   Van   Hoorn,    Eliza- 
beth ce  Foreest. 
Elbert   Harmese,   Catha- 

rina  Bogert,  s.  h.  v. 
Pieter  Roos,  Ammerencia 

Proost. 
Albartus     Coenradus 

Bosch,  Elizabeth  Mon- 

tanje. 

John  Tavoo,  Hester 
Foley. 

Ruthgert  Waldron,  Johan- 
nes Van  Giese,  Hester 
Charleton. 


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39 


A*  1708.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

[311]  Daniel  in  de   Voor,  Jacobus. 

January.  4.  Engeltje  Cornelus.  Rachel. 


dito  7. 

dito  11. 

dito  14. 
dito  18. 

dito  2i, 

dito  25. 


dito  2$. 


February  1. 


dito  8. 


Adolph  de   Grooff,  Rachel 
Rachel  Goderus. 

Cornelus    Post,    Cat-  Elyas. 

lyntje  Potman. 
Jan    Eckeson,  Maria  Thomas. 

Van  Aarnera. 
Hendrikus    Van    der  Davidt. 

Spiegel,  Anneke 

Provoost. 
Jacob  Sammon,  Cai-  Aegje. 

lyntje  Bensen. 
Genet  Van  Hoorn,   Margreta, 

Elsje  Provoost. 
Mjchiel  Janse,  Maria  Elizabeth. 

Stevens. 

Gerret  Dusjaen,   Eli-  Gerret. 

zabeth  Lamoreux. 
Cor1.  Abraha  m  d  e  Piere   Guille 

Peister,    Catharina      jaume. 

de  Peister. 


Isaac  de  Riemer,AaI- 

tje  Wessels. 
Wiiiem  S  j  e k  k  erl  y, 

Debora  Van  Dyk, 

A  n  t  h  o  n  y  B  y  v  a  n  k, 
Theuntje  Laning. 

Burger  Manus,  Geer- 
tru\r  Korse. 

Johannes  Low,  Engel- 
tje Brestede. 

Pieter  Burgers,  Catha- 
rina Henjon. 

Jacobus  Goelet,  Jan- 
netje  Cosaar. 

Philip  Boyls,  Cathari- 
na Van  Giinst. 

Alexander  Hooms, 
Janneke  de  Graw. 

Willem  Van  de  Water, 
Aegje  R-ingo. 

Char  el  Sjarmo,  Eliza- 
beth HuVbertz. 


Isaac. 

Willem. 

Anneke. 

Manus. 

Engeltje. 

Pieter. 

Philippus. 

Philippus. 
Alekzander. 

Albartus. 
Jan. 


GETUYGC^. 

Elbert  Harmese,  Cathari- 
na Boogert,  s.  h.  v.  Jo- 
hannes Boogert,  Claas- 
je  Van  Schaik,  s.  h.  v. 

Dirk  de  Grooff,  Aefje  de 
Grooff,  h.  v.  van  Gert. 
Schuyler. 

Casparus  Blank,  Cathari- 
na Ruthgers. 

Gerret  Viele,  Jannetje 
Eekeson. 

Davidt  Provoost,  Zenior, 
Antje  Stoutenburg. 

Johannes  Tho m as s e, 
Grietje  Brevoort. 

Davidt  Provoost,  Zenior, 
Vrouwtje  Zantvoort. 

Abraham  Aalsteyn, 
Catharina  Stevens,  h.  v. 
v.  Luyk  Stevens. 

Daniel  Sjandyn,  Cathari- 
na, s.  h.  vrou. 
-  Piere  de  Peyster,  Isaac 
de  Peister,  Adriana  de 
Peister,  Catharina  de 
Peister. 

Pieter  Sonnemans,  Catha- 
lina  Staats. 

Louwerens  Van  Hook, 
Debora  Anderson. 

Benjamin  Eldes,  Aaltje 
Schars,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Johannes  Burger,  Mar- 
greta Smith. 

Andries  Brestede,  Anne- 
tje,  s.  h.  vroii. 

Jan  Herres,  Maritje  Hen- 
jon, Wed. 

Cornelus  Klopper,  Xeel- 
tje  Jacobz,  H:  V:  van 
Evert  van  Hoek. 

Corneli  Coljer,  Maritje 
Coljer. 

Leendert  d e  G r a \v  & 
Theunis  Quik,  Gerretje 
de  Graw. 

Johannes  van  de  Water, 
Jannetje  Ringo. 

Fransoa  Ravo,  Susanna 
Colje. 


4<D  Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.      [Jan.> 

RECORDS    OF    THE    FIRST    AND    SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  OF   THE  CITY  OF    NEW    YORK.— Marriages. 

i  7~6  to . 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XV.,  p.  136,  of  The  Record.) 
1809. 

July  7.  Caleb  Wiley  to  Mary  Coleman. 

July  17.  John  Bartlit  to  Mary  Bannerman. 

July  20.  Nathanael  Oakley  to  Catharine  Chapel. 

July  24.   Stephen  Bates  to  Gitty  Colles. 

July  25.   Thomas  Thompson  to  Betsy  Lackey. 

Aug1  ic.   Lewis  A.  Pickhard  to  Eliza  Kip. 

Aug*  22.   Duncan  McKeichner  to  Margaret  King. 

Aug1  30.  Archibald  McVickar  to  Catharine  Augusta  Livingston.       (39) 

Septr        3.   William  W.  Groesbeck  to  Elizabeth  Cooper  Hageman. 

Sept*        4.  John  Malatnby  to  Maria  Mitraux. 

OcF  28.   Daniel  Sickels  to  Sarah  Hunt. 

Nov1         1.  Joshua  Porter  to  .Mary  Ann  Wood. 

Nov*  16.   Williams  Allison  to  Abigail  Smith  Gilmour. 

Decr  14.   Francis  Sexton  to  Sarah  Mills  Ross. 

Dec1  19.    vviuiani  u.  Ixuicliings  to  Ann  Styraets. 

1810. 

Jany  "    3.  William  W.  Williamson  to  Eliza  Van  Home. 

Jany  iS.  G.  Morgan  to  Elizabeth  McCready. 

Feb7         3.   Henry  Ackerman  to  Catharine  Bogart, 

Feby  iS.   James  Montgomery  to  Rebecca  Robb. 

F*eby  21.  Ebenezer  Reed  to  Isabella  Pringle. 

March  17.   Henry  Welch  to  Margaretta  McKay.  (40) 

March  24.   Robert  Meek  to  M  aria  Moore. 

March  rS.  Anthony  John  Charles  Girard  to  Ann  Ivers. 

April         5.   Hem  an  Emmons  to  Ann  Aim. 

April         5.  Thaddeus  Goodyear  to  Elizabeth  Van  Ranst. 

April         7.  John  W.  Tillman  to  Eliza  Conkiin. 

April  12.   John  Mitchell  to  Mary  Freeman  (people  of  colour). 

April  28.  Samuel  Riker,  Junr.  to  Margaret  E.  Montgomery. 

April  28.  Edward  Chard  to  Margaret  Armstrong. 

May  7.  John  Bowley  to  Sarah  Tichenor  (widow  Dickinson). 

May  12.   William  Coihoun  to  Rebecca  Keys. 

June  9.   Tames  Ratchford  to  Ellen  Jones. 

June  15.   Christopher  Sammis  to  Mehitabel  Seymour. 

June  20.  James  Baldwin  to  Sarah  Swan. 

June  23.  Solomon  D.  Gibson  to  Ann  Martin.  (41) 

June  27.   John  Ccdet  to  Phebe  Leonard. 

June  30.   John  Sutherland  to  Jane  Jones. 

Septr  15.  Thomas  Davidson  to  Eliza  Bowers. 

Novr         7.   Nathaniel  Weed  to  Hannah  Smith. 

Novr  10.  Jacob  Lienburgh  to  Amy  Golding. 

Nov1  1  7.   Hugh  Atkins  to  Elizabeth  Mone. 

Nov*  22.    George  W.  DeWitt  to  Sophia  M.  Howlett. 

Nov7  24.  John  Dunscomb  to  Euphemia  Tofts.  (42) 


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Fassouer,  or  Fassaur,  Family  Record. 


41 


Nov'  24.  Walter  VanVechten  to  Mary  Hunt. 

Nov1  25.  Robert  Sales  to  Mary  Briggs  (people  of  colour). 

Dec'  15.   George  Bowen  to  Harriet  Seymour  (widow  Bloodgood). 

Dec'  16.   Abraham  Dickson  to  Rosetta  Johnson  (people  of  colour). 

J)ecr  22.  William  Bistos  to  Rachel  Blizzard. 

Decr  24.   Benjamin  Dibbs  to  Sarah  Griffin. _  _ 


Jan' 

8 

March 

6 

March 

14 

March 

23 

April 

3 

April 

8 

April 

1  T 

April 

12 

April 

25 

April 

27 

June 

2. 

Septr 

12 

1811. 

Robert  Patten  to  Tace  W.  Bradford  (widow  Dickson). 

Nathaniel  Tylee  to  Hannah  Ann  McFarlane. 

Isaac  Stymes  to  Angelina  Carlton. 

Isaac  Thomas  Heartte  to  Mary  E.  Ozeas  (widow  Dick). 

William  Given  to  Phebe  Stibbs. 

Benjamin  Ledyard  to  Susan  F.  Livingston. 

Maltby  Gelston  to  Mary  Jones. 

Paul  Burrows  to  Mary  Ann  Nichols. 

Joseph  Dodd  to  Margaret  Dougherty. 

Ivory  White  to  Elizabeth  Van  Brunt. 

William  Young  to  Mary  Britton  (widow  Nestor). 

Philip  Schuyler  to  Grace  Hunter. 

(To  be  continued.) 


(43) 


FASSOUER,  OR   FASSAUR,  FAMILY   RECORD. 


Communicated  by  Charles  W.  Baird. 


I  am  permitted  to  transcribe  for  The  Record,  the  marriage  certificate 
of  Henry  Fassouer,  together  with  some  family  records  in  the  possession 
of  one  of  his  descendants.  By  "  MorghburglV  Fassouers  birthplace,  it 
is  possible  that  Marburg,  in  Hesse-Cassel,  may  have  been  intended. 

Charles  W.  Baird. 
Rye,  N.  Y. 

L.  B.  S.  ! 

These  are  to  certify,  that  Mr.  Henry  Fassouer,  Musician  in  His  Ma- 
jesty's own,  or,  4th  Regiment,  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Lceweisen  have  on  the 
4th  Day  of  September,  annoque  Domini  1778,  been  lawfully  joined  to- 
gether in  the  Holy  [Bo]nds  of  Matrimony  by  me  the  Subscriber.  In 
Testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  Hand  and  Seal — New  York 
Septr.  9th-a-r-s.  1778. 

Bernard  Michael  Houseal  [seal]. 


Witnesses  : 
Mr.  Christian  Lceweisen  and 
Mistrs.  Margareth  Lceweisen. 
Mr.  Bogen,  Surgeon. 
Sophia  Mayer. 
Mrs.  Houseal. 
Miss  Amalia 
■ Sibylla 

- —  Peggy 


Minister  of  the  Antient  LutMeran]  Trinity 
Church  in  the  City  of  New  York  and,  by  Royal 
Charter,  one  of  the  Governors  of  King's  College  in 
the  said  City. 


a  2  Fassouer,  or  Fassaur  y  Family  Record.  [J^n-? 

New  York,  den  .23.  decem[berj 
War  ge  Boren  Johan   Henrich  Au  [  ]   den  kriizstag  [?]  des  Ab- 

bend  urn  8  [         ]  und  den  .6.  January  gedauf 

New  York,  July  den  .25.  1783 
[I]st  Joh?n  Henrich  gestorben.  Und  Bekraben  \begraberi\  den.  26.  July 
1st  alt  worden  ein  Jahr  .5.  Monat  und  .9.  daye 

New  York  den  .  1.  January  1 7 S [4] 
War  gebohren  Henrich  Mardin    [?]  In  der   Ncu  Jahrs  Nacht   Urn  .11. 
uhr  und  gedauft  Feberwa  [     J  den  .20.  1784 

New  York  April  the  3  1785    | 
Anno  1755  Henry  Fassaur  Born  in  Morghburgh  [         ]  old 

New  York  May  the  12  1785 
Anno  1758  Elizabeth  Fassaur  Born  New  York  27  years  old 

New  York  September  the  5  [         ] 
[W]as  Born  Margaret  on  an  Sunday  between  7  and  S  [o'cjlock  in  the 
morning  September  the  26  Chrisned 

New  York  December  th  23  1782 
[Wa]s  Born  Henry  on  Crismas  Day  in  the  evineng  6  o'clock  and  the 
6  of  January  Chrisned. 

July  the  25  1783    T 

rrviVM  jjo-nw  onrl   Buried  the   ?6  July  p^ed  one  vears  [     ]   Months  & 
9  Days. 

Was  Born  Hen[  ]  o  Clock 

and  Ch[ristened]  February  the  20  1784 

September  the  10   Dyed  Henry  Martin  and   Buried  the  11  of  Septem- 
ber 1784  aged  8  Monthes  10  Days 

New  York  july  the  30  1785 

Was  Born  Laurance  at  10  o  clock  in  the  morning  and  Chrisned  the  21 
of  August  1785 

New  York  September  the  25  17S8 

Was   Born   Michael  &   Polly  t weens  between   12  &  one  o  Clock  and 
Chrisned  the  19  of  October  17S8 

New  York  October  the  6  1792 

Was   born  Catherine   Fassaur   Between   4  &    5  in  the  afternoon  and 
Chrisned  the  2  of  November  1792 

September  the  n  1792    Died  Catherine   &  buried  the  twelve  of  Sep- 
tember 1793  aged  11  months  and  live  days 

New  York  April  the  20  179I4] 

Was  Born  SoFiah  Fassaur  between  3  d*  4  o  Clock   in  the  morning  and 
chrisned  the  11  of  May  1794 

New  York  January  2nd  1796  Dyed  Sofiah  Fassaur  Aged  one  year  and 
Eight  Months  24  Days  &  Buried  3  of  January  1796 

New  York   June  the  17  1797     Was  born  Catherine  Fassaur*  between 
three  and  four  o  Clock  in  the  afternoon 

Died   Laurence   Fassaur  the   second  of  July  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord 
1 797  aged  11  years  and  11  months  and  twenty  nine  days 

New  York  February  the  16  179S     Died  Henry  Fassaur  aged   42   years 
3  months  and  3  days 

*  Catharine  Fassaur,  widow  of  George  Barry,  died  at  Rye  Neck,  in  the  town  of  Rye,  Westchester  Co., 
N.  V.,  June  15,  1884,  aged  eighty-six  years,  eleven  months,  and  twenty-nine  days. — C.  \V.  B. 


SS5-]  Notes  and  Queries.  a  3 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES. 

Annual  Meeting  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society  for  1SS5. — The  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Society  was  held  on  Friday  evening, 
January  9,  1SS5,  at  64  Madison  Avenue.  An  interesting  paper  was  read,  entitled,  "A 
Consideration  of  the  Acadian  Expulsion,"  by  Mr.  Philip  11.  Smith  ;  at  the  conclusion 
of  which  brief  addresses  were  made  by  Edward  F.  De  Lancey  and  Rev.  Dr.  Hague,  in 
moving  and  seconding  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  author  of  the  paper.  At  the  annual  elec- 
tion, the  following  were  elected  trustees  of  the  Society  for  the  term  expiring,  iSSS  : 
Samuel  S.  Purple,  Edward  F.  De  Lancey,  and  General  James  Crant  Wilson.  Subse- 
quently, at  a  meeting  of  the  trustees,  the  following  officers  were  elected  for  1SS5  :  Presi' 
dent,  Henry  F.  Drowne  ;  First  Vice-Prseident,  Ellsworth  Eliot  ;  Second  Vice-President, 
General  James  Grant  Wilson;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Henry  R.  Stiles;  Recording 
Secretary,  Oliver  E.  Coles  ;  Librarian,  Samuel  Burhans,  Jr.  ;  Treasurer,  George  H. 
Butler  ;  Executive  Committee,  Ellsworth  Eliot,  Gerret  II.  Van  Wagenen,  Frederick  D. 
Thompson,  and  Thomas  G.  Evans  ;  Committee  on  Biographical  Bibliography,  Charles 
B.  Moore  and  Thomas  H.  Edsall  ;  Registrar  of  Pedigrees,  Joseph  O.  Brown  ;  Com- 
mittee on  Publication,  Samuel  S.  Purple,  Charles  B.  Moore,  John  J.  Latting,  General 
James  Grant  Wilson,  and  Henry  R.  Stiles. 

The  Annual  Address  before  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society 
will  be  delivered  in  the  Hall  of  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  12  West  Thirty-first  Street, 
on  Friday  evening  February  27tn.  -,f  <-:gV  o'clock,  by  General  James  Grant  Wilson, 
one  of  the  Vice-Presidents  of  the  Society.  Subject:  "Colonel  John  Bayard,  of  Bo- 
hemia Manor  (1738-1807),  and  other  Prominent  Members  of  the  Bayard  Family." 

Bogert  Family. — Peter  Bogert,  born  about  1775,  married  his  cousin  Anne,  dau.  of 
David  and  Elizabeth  (Schurman)  Nevins;  was,  prior  to  1832,  janitor  of  the  College  of  New 
Jersey, -Princeton.  John  Gilbert  Bogert,  his  brother,  b.  Jan.  21,  1778,  was  of  New  York 
City,  and  married,  1799,  Sarah,  dau.  of  John  and  Lydia  Vanderhoof,  of  New  York,  and 
secondly,  in  1803,  Jane,  dau.  of  Morris  and  Elizabeth  (Terhune)  Earle,  of  Hackensack. 
The  parentage  and  ancestry  of  these  brothers  is  wanted.  It  is  supposed  their  father's 
name  was  Peter,  and  that  they  had  an  uncle,  Dr.  Jacob  Bogert.  or  Bogart,  of  Hillsborough, 
Somerset  County,  N.  J.  I.  J.  greenwood,  n.  Y. 

Carpenter.  —  Thomas  Carpenter,  an  officer  in  DeLancey's  Third  Battalion,  was 
married  Aug.  20,  17S1,  at  St.  George's  Church,  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  to  Lucretia  Quintard, 
late  of  Connecticut,  now  of  Suffolk  County.  At  the  peace  he  went  to  St.  John's,  N.  B., 
was  one  of  the  grantees  of  that  city,  and  received  half-pay. 

Thomas  Carpenter,  born  1 757,  wife  Edith  Bunce  ;  he  was  a  prominent  member  of  the 
old  John  Street  M.  E.  Church;  Alderman  of  Second  Ward,  New  York  City  ;  Assembly- 
man, etc.      He  died  1825,  and  was  at  that  time  Warden  of  the  Port. 

Can  any  of  the  readers  of  the  Record  give  me  information  respecting  the  descendants 
of  the  above  ?  daniel  h.  carpenter. 

70  Clarkson  Street,  New   York. 

Fitch— Rogers. — In  the  valuable  article  on  the  "  Rogers  Lineage"  (Record,  vol. 
xv.,  p.  150),  it  is  stated  that  "  Samuel  Rogers  m.  about  1748,  Elizabeth  Fitch,  b.  about 
1724,  dau.  of  Governor  Thomas  Fitch."     Is  not  this  an  error  ? 

I  have  before  rne,  through  the  kindness  of  Hon.  John  Fitch,  of  New  York  fa  descend- 
ant of  the  Governor),  a  letter  to  him  from  Samuel  Rowland,  Esq.,  of  New  Haven,  dated 
March  10,  1873,  in  which  the  writer,  after  stating  that  he  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Rowland 
and  of  Sarah  (dau.  of  Captain  John  Maltbic,  U.S.N.),  his  wife,  says  that  Elizabeth, 
youngest  daughter  of  Governor  Fitch  and  wife  of  Andrew  Rowland,  of  Fair- field,  was  his 
grandmother,  that  she  was  born  in  1738,  and  died  at  Fairfield,  March  29,  1S25,  aged 
eighty-seven,  leaving  children  Samuel  (father  of  the  writer),  b.  1769,  d.  1837,  Thomas 
Fir.ch,  b.  1774,  d.  1S46,  and  Elizabeth,  b.  1778,  m.  Gershun  Sturges,  and  d.  1864.  The 
whole  letter  shows  a  thorough  acquaintance  with  the  subject  and  Mr.  Rowland  was  then 
engaged  in  making  up  a  genealogy  of  the  family  of  his  great  uncle  Colonel  Thomas  Fitch. 

Besides,  in  Hall's  "Ancient  Historical  Records  of  Norwalk,"  p.  207,  it  is  set  forth 
that  Governor  Thomas  Fitch  m.  Plannah,  dau.  of  Mr.  Richard  Hall,  of  New  Haven, 


A  a  Notes  and  Queries.  fjan., 

Sept.  4,  1724,  that  his  son  Thomas  was  b.  Aug.   12,  1725,  and  then  a  list  is  given  of  his 
chiMren  down  to  1733,  and  the  name  of  Elizabeth  does  not  appear. 

Elizabeth  Fitch  was  only  ten  years  of  age  in  1748,  the  date  of  her  supposed  marriage 
with  Samuel  Rogers.  J.  o.  B. 

Jones,  cf  the  Priory,  Reigate,  Surrey,  Eng. — Are  any  descendants  of  Richard 
Ireland  Jones  and  Alfred,  his  brother,  still  living  in  America  ?  The  latter  was  at  Queens- 
town,  Md.,  in  [826,  and,  ic  is  believed,  the  former  married  and  left  four  children.  The 
undersigned  needs  the  information  to  complete  a  pedigree  of  the  family. 

REV.  \V.  J.   WEBBER  JONES. 

Albury,   Ware,  Herts,  England. 

New  Jersey  Historical  Society. — The  Fortieth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  New- 
Jersey  Historical  Society  was  held  at  Trenton,  on  January  15th,  last.  The  Rev.  Dr. 
Hamill,  the  President,  stated  that  of  those  who  aided  in  framing  the  Constitution,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1S4.5,  only  two  survived — the  Hon.  foseph  P.  Bradley,  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court,  and  the  Hon.  Courtlandt  Parker,  of  Newark.  The  following  officers 
were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  :  President — Rev.  Dr.  S.  M.  Hamill,  Lawrenceville; 
Vice-Presidents — John  T.  Nixon,  John  Clement,  S.  II .  Pennington;  Corresponding 
Secretary — Dr.  Stephen  Wickes,  Orange  ;  Recording  Secretary — William  Nelson,  Fat- 
erson  ;  Treasurer  and  Librarian  —  F.  W.  Ricord,  Newark  ;  Executive  Committee — 
George  A.  Halsey,  Newark  ;  Rev.  Dr.  George  S.  Mott,  Fiemington  ;  ex-Governor  Joel 
Parker,  Freehold;  Joseph  N.  Tuttle,  Newark;  John  F.  Hageman,  Princeton;  David 
A.  Depue,  Newark;  ex-Speaker  Nathaniel  Niies,  Madison;  John  I.  Blair,  Belvidere  ; 
Gen.  William  S.  Striker,  Trenton;  Committee  on  Colonial  -^Documents — ex-Speaker 
NiTes,  ex-Governor  Joel  Parker,  ex-Mayor  Garret  D.  W.  Vroom,  and  William  Nelson. 
This  Committee  has  charge  of  the  publication  of  the  New  Jersey  Archives,  eight  volumes 
of  which  have  been  issued  so  far,  under  authority  of  the  State.  The  importance  of  gene- 
alogy as  a  branch  of  historical  inquiry  was  recognized  by  the  appointment,  on  motion  of 
Mr.  Nelson,  o(  a  Standing  Committee  on  Genealogy,  as  follows:  Hon.  John  Clement, 
of  Haddonheld ;  Gen.  W.  S.  Stryker,  Trenton  ;  Edwin  Salter,  Freehold  ;  Rev.  Dr. 
George  S.  Mott,  Fiemington  ;  Edmund  D.  Halsey,  Morristown  ;  Elias  N.  Miller,  New- 
ark ;  Hon.  Charles  H.  Winfield,  Jersey  City.  An  able  and  deeply  interesting  address 
was  delivered  by  Gen.  H.  B.  Carrington,  U.S.A.,  retired,  of  Boston,  on  "The  Strateg- 
ical Relations  of  New  Jersey  to  the  War  for  American  Independence."  The  next  meet- 
ing of  the  Society,  in  May,  is  to  be  devoted  chiefly  to  a  memorial  of  the  late  William  A. 
Whitehead,  for  forty  years  the  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Society.  The  Rev.  Dr. 
S.  I.  Prime  is  to  deliver  the  address.  W.  N. 

Ogilyie. — Can  any  of  the  readers  of  the  Record  give  me  information  concerning  the 
parentage  or  pedigree  of  Dr.  John  Ogilvie,  Assistant  to  the  Rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
who  died  in  1774.     Bolton  is  astray  in  the  matter.  j.  Archibald  Murray. 

35  Wall  Street,  New  York. 

Spratt  Family  of  New  York  (Record,  vi.,  21).— James  Alexander  noted  the 
births  of  the  children  of  John  Spratt  as  follows,  viz.:  Cornelia,  born  July  16,  16SS  ; 
John,  born  February  1,  16S9-1690  ;   Mary  (his  wife),  born  April  17,  16*93. 

W.   KELBY. 

[The  dates  of  the  births  of  the  children  of  John  Spratt,  of  Wigton,  in  Galloway,  and 
Maria  de  peyster,  of  Neiw  yorke,  have  already  appeared  in  the  Record,  vol.  ix. ,  p.  125, 
and  vol.  xii.,  p.  174,  where  will  be  found  the  Spratt  family  records  as  copied  from  the 
Spratt  family  Bible!— S.  S.  P.] 

Willis  Family  of  Long  Island. — Some  additions  to  this  genealogy,  published  in 
the  Record  for  October,  1SS4,  p.  176,  are  herewith  gleaned  from  that  model  work, 
"  Sketches  of  the  First  Emigrant  Settlers  in  Newton  Township,  West  New  Jersey,"  by 
Judge  Clement,  of  the  New  Jersev  Court  of  Errors  and  Appeals.  Published  in  Camden, 
N.  J.,  1877. 

173.  Abraham  Albertson,  m.  Sarah  Dennis.  "  He  died  in  1739,  leaving  the  fol- 
lowing named  family  :  Isaac;  Jacob,  who  married  Patience  Chew ;  Abraham,  D.  S.  P.; 
Ephraim,  who  m.  Keziah  Chew  ;  Joseph,  m.  Rose  Hampton  ;  Aaron,  m.  Elizabeth  Al- 
bertson;   Levi,  m.    K'esiah  Roberts;  Jonathan;   Rebecca,  m.  ;   Beverly,  and  < , 

who  m.  Richard  Chew  "  (Id.,  p.  106). 

174.  William  Albertson,  in.  Jane  Turner,  and  had  several  children.  Judge  Cle- 
ment says  she  was  the  third  wife  of  Samuel  Nicholson,  d.  1702.      She  "was  somewhat 


iSSs.J 


Notes  on  Books.  j  c 


remarkable  in  her  marriage  relations,  having  had  four  husbands,  and,  probably,  dying  a 
widow.  The  husbands  were  John  Turner,  William  Albertson,  Samuel  Nicholson,  and 
Thomas  Middleton."     She  was  a  daughter  of  John  Engle  (pp.  221,  3^2.  i(  | 

i~~    Esth  v.  m.  William  Bates,  and  had  several  children.      ;>  William 

Bate?  married   an.!   had   tl  ren — two   of  whom   died   in    infancy — lea. 

daughter,  Mary,  who  married  William  lurry,  of  Philadelphia.  Her  father  died  174S" 
(Id.,  52.). 

Abraham  Willis,  son  of  John  Willis,  was  baptized  in  the  Dutch  Church,  at  Acquack-  f 
r.nonck,  about  1762  (I  have   not   the   re  '..and  just   now).      Was  this  family  con- 

nected with  that  on  Long  Island?  Al  im  Willis  was  a  surveyor  and  sch  '.teacher 
in  and  about  Paterson  for  many  years,  and  until  his  death  in  1S10.  WM.  nelson. 

Pater  son,  A.  J.,  January  6,  1885. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 


Genealogy  of  the  Van  Wagenen  Family,  from  1650  to  18S4.    Part  First.    Con- 
taining the  first  three  generations  of  the  family  complete,  and  then  following  down 
the   descendants  of  Aart  Van    W:  .     ._:.,  the   grai     -    n  of  the   first    ;e    ler  of  the 
name  in   America.      By  Gerrit    Hubert   Van  Wagenex,  of  Rye,    Westcl 
County,  N.  Y.      Printed  for  private  distribution.      1SS4,      Svo,   pp.  69. 

Aert.  or  Aart   Tacobsen,  of   Waeeningen,   a   town  near   the   Rhine,  in  Guelderland, 

came  with  his  wife,  Annetje  Gerr::-,  an  ssibiy  one  or  more  ii  ....  to  New  Amster- 
dam about  the  year  1650,  and  appar<  ';  ettle  "  first  in  Rensselaerwick  W  am  \  and 
subsequently  removed  to  Wiitwyck  (Kingston),  Ulster  County.  His  descendant  of  the 
eighth  generation,  the  author  of  this  compilation,  has, after  many  years  of  stud  -  research, 
and  apparently  with  great  care  as  to  authenticity  and  a::..  I   statements,  issued   I    is 

first  instalment  of  a  work  designed  to  be  a  complete  gene  il     ;   '  f  :>ne  of  tl  e  : 

distinctive  Dutcl  fa  ilies  of  this  State.  Part  Second  will  contain  the  genealogy  of  that 
branch  of  the  family  i  '.  settled  in  Duchess  County;  and  Part  Third,  of  the  des  endants 
of  Jacob  Aartsen.  the  eldest  son  of  the  immigrant,  who  settled  at  Wagendaal,  near 
Kingston,  in  Ulster  County.  Two  indices — one  of  the  Van  Wagenen  baptismal,  or 
Christian  names  (by  mistake  called  surnames),  and  one  of  other  family  surnames — ac- 
company the  volume.  The  work  is  well  arranged  for  easy  reference,  and  handsomely 
printed  in  clear,  large  type.  L. 

A  Genealogical  Memoir  of  the  Lo-Lathrop  Family,  in  this  Country.     Embn 

the  Descei  lants,  as  far  as  known,  of  the  Rev.  John  Lothropp,  of  Scituate  and 
Barnstable,  Mass.,  and  Mark  Lothrop,  of  Salem  and  Eridgewater,  Mass.  And 
the  First  Generation  of  Descendants  of  other  Names.  By  the  Rev.  E.  E.  Hunt- 
ington, A.M.  Mrs.  Julia  M.  Huntington,  Ridgefield,  Conn.  1S84.  Svo.  pp. 
457.      Fourteen  Portraits,  and  View  of  Lowthorpe  Parish  Church. 

The  first  favorable  impression  of  this  handsome  volume  is  not  wholly  confirmed  by  a 
closer  aeqi  tintai  .  with  its  contents.  It  by  no  means  fairly  re]  resents  the  family  v 
records  it  perpetuates,  a  family  which  has  been  prominent  among  the  best  of  New  England 
families,  from  the  beginning  even  unto  the  present.  It  is  well  done  "  as  far  as  i;  goes.-' 
Its  fault  is  that  it  does  not  go  far  enough.  Many  of  its  most  prominent  members  . 
mention  beyond  record  of  birth  and  death  ;  and.  in  regard  to  others,  many  extremely  in- 
teresting and  well-known  facts  are  omitted.  This  could  not  have  been  from  want  of  ma- 
terial. We  should  consider  the  hibtory  of  the  Lathrop  (Lothrop)  family  as  one  of  the 
easiest  to   compile.      Its  early  members  are  larg<  -  '    in   Baylis'  New  Plymouth, 

Morton's  Memorial,  Thatcher's  Plymouth,  Neal's  Puritans,  Freeman's  Cape  Cod.  Otis, 
of  Yarmouth,  compiled  a  very  complete  genealogy  of  the  Barnstable  branch,  and  an  al- 
most exhaustive  history  of  the  pioneer  an:  his  surroundings,  -  hich  latter  were  published 
in  N.  E.   Genealogical  Register.     An  excellent    g       c  ai  tree  was   arranged   by  J 

Lathrop  in  1S67.  Miss  Caulkins'  historic-  of  Norv  1  ai  New  London,  Conn.,  deal  ex- 
tensively with  tl  e  fami  y,  as  do  several  other  acce  i  be  local  histories.  Chancellor  Wal- 
worth, in  the  Hyde  Genealogy,  and  even  Mr.  Huntington  himself,  in  the  genealogy  of  his 
own  family,  go  over  a  par;  of  the  gi  und ;  while  the  family  themselves  have  generally 
kept  pretty  full  records. 


46  Notes  on  Books.  [Jan., 

With  the  wealth  of  existing  material,  it  seems  a  pity  to  have  to  notice  these  "sins  of 
omission."  It  is  due,  undoubtedly,  to  the  author's  death,  leaving  his  work  unfinished  ; 
and  its  (evidently  hurried)  completion  by  some  other  hand,  less  infused  with  the  spirit  of 
the  work;  and  less  acquainted,  we  should  judge,  with  the  characteristics  of  the  family. 
The  s  characteristics— if  we  have  read  New  England  history  aright— were  self-respect, 
strong  independence  of  character,  judicial  and  business  ability,  and  a  (comparative)  dis- 
regard for  mere  money-making.  It  is  a  family  winch  has  had  its  full  share  of  godly 
ministers,  rather  more  than  its  share  of  judges,  and  a  large  proportion  of  soldiers.  It  is 
in  view  of  the  right  of  such  a  family  to  a  full  and  fair  representation,  that  we  venture  to 
complain  that  many  of  its  most  worthy  members  ^re  ki  conspicuous  only  by  their  ab- 
sence," in  these  pages. 

The  reader  will  allow  us,  perhaps,  to  call  attention  to  some  of  these  neglected  points, 
(i)  Joseph  Lothrop,  8,  p.  40,  was  first  Register  of  Probate  of  Barnstable  County,  16S6  ; 
and  one  of  the  same  family,  Freeman  Hinckley  Lothrop,  now  occupies  the  same  olhce  in 
that  County — about  two  hundred  years  later.  (2)  Barnabas,  10,  p.  41,  was  also  Coun- 
sellor under  Sir  Edmund  Andros,  16^6.  See,  also,  mention  in  Judge  Sewall's  Diary,  and 
other  sources.  (3)  In  Barnstable,  Cape  Cod,  the  family  was  from  the  first  allied  by  in- 
termarriage with  Governor  Hinckley's  family.  (4)  At 'Plymouth  the  three  Isaacs  (viz., 
80,  p.  55;  1S6.  p.  71  ;  394..  p.  103;  are  all  too  interesting  to  be  so  slenderly  noticed. 
(5)  Rev.  John,  of  Boston,  p.  So,  a  prominent  and  talented  man,  pastor  of  the  Old  South 
Church,  is  here  hardly  mentioned.  From  the  few  following  items,  given  below,  it  will 
be  seen  how  he  has  been  defrauded  of  Ids  due  proportions  in  this  genealogy,  of  which,  by 
right,  he  is  a  most  conspicuous  figure.  He  was  John,  a  great  grandson  of  Rev.  John, 
graduate  of  Princeton,  N.  J.  ;  Assistant  of  President  Wheelock,  in  Indian  School  at 
Lebanon  ;  a  prominent  member  of  the  corporation  of  Harvard  University,  from  177S  to 
-1""--,  •  ;  ...  jf  .'.  _  Zzcond"  Church  in  1706,  and  when  it  was  burned  by  the 
British,  of  the  old  North  Church  (Mather's  Church).  His  wife  was  the  granddaughter  of 
the  Elizabeth  Rolfe  who  was  hidden  under  a  wash  tub  when  her  father  was  killed  by 
-Indians  on  the  attack  upon  Haverhill,  in  170S.  John  Lathrop  Motley  was  his  grandson. 
Several  of  hi;  sermons  have  been  published.  A  Boston  ballad,  written  in  1774, 
alluding  to  his  sermon  on  the  massacre  on  March  5,  1770,  says: 
"  Lathrop  so  clever,  old  North  forever, 

How  pleasing  both  the  sounds  ; 

Texts  he  explains  in  sober  strains, 

Confined  to  sober  bounds. 

But  when  he  treats  of  bloody  streets, 

And  massacres  so  dire, 

When  chous'd  of  rights  by  sinful  wights, 

How  dreadful  is  his  ire." 
Another  ballad  on  the  Boston  minister,  about  1774,  says: 

"And  John,  old  North,  though  little  worth, 

Won't  sacrifice  to  gold." — New  England  Genealogical  Register. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  (himself  a  descendant  of  the  first  Rev.  John  Lothrop)  men- 
tions Rev.  John,  of  Boston,  in  memoir  of  Motley. 

In  "  The  Massachusetts  Historical  Collections."  Vol.  1  of  2d  series,  is  a  biographical 
memoir  of  the  Pioneer,  John  Lothrop.  by  Rev.  John,  of  Boston  ;  addressed  to  Rev. 
Abiel  Holmes,  D.D.  (father  of  Oliver  Wendell),  and  mentioning  the  fact  of  his  being 
Holmes1  great -great-grandfather. 

In  Mrs.  Caulkins'  "History  of  Norwich,"  from  which  he  freely  borrows,  he  omits, 
among  much  else,  that  the  Lathrops  were  of  the  first  mill  owners  and  manufacturers. 
"Lothrop  Mills"  was  a  local  name  near  Norwich.  Besides  grist  and  other  mills,  Simon 
and  Elijah  had  linseed-oil  and  chocolate  mills  in  177S.  In  1790  Joshua  established  the 
first  cotton  mill.  Elijah  and  lus  celebrated  son-in-law,  Nathaniel  Niles  (inventor,  poet, 
and  minister,  etc.),  had  iron  wire  and  wool  card  factories.  Niles  was  inventor  of  a  process 
for  making  wire  out  of  bar  iron  by  wr.ter-power.  here  first  practised. 

Dr.  Daniel  Lathrop  left  ^500.  in  1782,  to  establish  a  free  Grammar  School  in  Nor- 
wich. It  existed  for  fifty  years,  and  as  the  Lathrop  School  enjoyed  considerable  repu- 
tation. 

The  Lathrops  of  Norwich  were  among  the  earliest  of  the  "  Connecticut  settlers  *'  in 
Pennsylvania.  l<  Azariah  was  a  large  proprietor  in  Huntington  township  in  first  '  Dela- 
ware purchase.'  Zachariah  surveyed  Warwick  township  in  Pennsylvania,  1773  ;  others 
settled  on  the  Rugiy  and  Wyalusing." 


1 885.]  Obituary.  47 

In  Susquehanna  County  they  were  among  the  earliest  pioneers,  1799,  an^  became 
noted  citizens.  A  township,  town,  and  lake  still  bear  the  name  of  Lathrop,  and  the 
descendants  are  prominent  people.  (Sec  Miss  Blakeman's  "  History  of  Susquehanna 
County.") 

Mr.  Huntington  failed  to  see,  as  it  seems  to  us,  that  the  Rev.  John,  the  American 
ancestor,  was  a  "Separatist"  and  not  a  "Puritan;"  and  that  he  belonged  to  those 
liberal-minded  churchmen,  detested  by  Cotton  Mather,  who  sought  refuge  at  Cape  Cod 
and  Plymouth,  alike  from  his  church  and  the  Church  in  England,  and  who  protected 
Quakers,  Indians,  and  witches  during  the  "persecutions."  Deane  ("  Hist.  Scituate"), 
speaking  of  his  first  congregation  in  this  country,  says  they  were  "  men  of  Kent,  cele- 
brated in  English  history  as  men  of  gallantry,  loyalty,  and  courtly  manners,  many  of 
whom  had  been  in  his  former  church  in  England — Cudworth,  Hinckley,  Stedman,  Tilden 
(ancestor  of  Governor  Samuel  J,),  and  others." 

It  is  unfortunate  that  the  connection,  in  England,  between  the  three  pioneers  of  the 
family,  Rev.  John,  Mark,  and  the  gallant  Captain  Thomas,  which  was  the  principal 
object  of  Mr.  Huntington's  labors  abroad,  was  not  established  by  his  researches. 

Of  course,  our  animadversions  upon  the  Lo-Lathrop  Genealogy  do  not  affect  the 
accuracy  or  value  of  whnt  has  been  done  ;  they  simply  express  our  regret  that  more  time 
and  "loving  pains"  had  not  been  given  to  the  fuller  completion  of  Mr.  Huntington's 
labors.  H.  R.  s. 


OBITUARY. 


Armstrong. — Henry  B.  Armstrong,  who  died  November  10,  1SS4,  at  his  residence 
in  Red  Hook,  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  was  buried  from  Christ  Church,  Red  Hook,  on 
Monday.  Nov.  13th.  He  was  the  only  surviving  son  of  Genl.  John  Armstrong,  Secretary 
of  War  under  Madison,  and  a  brother  of  the  late  Mrs.  William  B.  Astor,  and  was  born  in 
New  York,  May  9,  1702.  His  early  years  were  spent  in  France,  where  his  father  was 
American  Minister  to  the  Court  of  Napoleon  I.  He  was  educated  at  a  French  military 
school,  where,  he  told  the  writer,  he  went  bareheaded  for  years — hats  of  all  kinds  being 
considered  effeminate — and  frequently  saw  the  Emperor  Napoleon.  In  1810  he  returned 
to  the  United  States,  and,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  with  Great  Britain,  entered 
the  army  as  Captain  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment  of  United  States  Infantry.  lie  served 
through  the  war  with  gallantry  and  distinction,  having  been  severely  wounded  at  the  as- 
sault upon  Queenstown  Heights,  and  having  shared  in  the  capture  of  Fort  George,  the 
battle  of  Stony  Creek,  and  the  sortie  from  Fort  Erie.  At  the  close  of  the  war— in  1S15 
— he  retired  from  the  army  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  First  Regiment  of  Rifles.  For 
nearly  seventy  years  Colonel  Armstrong  lived  the  retired  life  of  a  country  gentleman  on 
his  estate  in  Dutchess  County,  inherited  from  his  father,  where  his  warm  heart  and  genial 
disposition  made  him  universally  beloved  by  a  large  family  circle  and  troops  of  friends. 
His  mind  and  memory  were  richly  stored  with  recollections  of  many  eminent  men,  whom 
he  had  met  in  the  course  of  his  long  life  of  ninety-three  years.  J.  G.  w. 

Bechthold. — Arend  Hendrik  Bechthold,  Pastor  of  the  Holland  Reformed  Church 
of  this  city,  died  at  his  residence,  No.  279  West  Eleventh  Street,  on  Saturday,  Novem- 
ber 17,  1SS4.  He  was  born  in  Amsterdam,  Holland,  April  19,  1S22,  and  was  the  young- 
est of  a  family  of  twelve  children.  His  father,  Andries  Bechthold,  and  his  mother,  Anne 
M.  G.  Gaatman,  of  Amsterdam,  were  pious  and  devoted  Christians  in  humble  but  com- 
fortable circumstances,  and  reared  their  children  wdth  strict  regard  to  a  pious  and  Chris- 
tian life.  When  young  Bechthold  was  in  his  twelfth  year  his  father  died.  On  December 
17,  1843,  m  ^5  twenty-second  year,  he  embarked  from  Amsterdam  for  Surinam,  in  Dutch 
Guiana,  South  America,  where  he  was  at  first  employed  on  a  sugar  and  coffee  plantation. 
He  subsequently  entered  the  mercantile  house  of  Jacobus  Jongeneel  in  the  city  of  Par- 
amaribo. The  sudden  death  of  his  employer,  and  the  consequent  discontinuance  of  the 
business,  and  his  own  religious  convictions  decided  him  thenceforward  to  devote  his  life 
to  missionary  work.  With  this  view  he  studied  all  the  theological  works  he  could  obtain. 
On  January  27,  1S47,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Antoinette  Elizabeth  Cornelie 
Jongeneel,  the  daughter  of  his  former  employer.  During  the  years  1857  and  1S5S  he 
was  superintendent  of  the  "Suriftaamscke  Mettray"  a  farm  school  for  orphans  in  Suri- 
nam. His  brother-in-law,  the  Rev.  Louis  George  Jongeneel,  being  then  a  missionary  in 
the  Dutch  Colony  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  Mr.  Bechthold  was  persuaded  to  join  him 


48  Obituary.  [Jan.,  1885. 

in  missionary  labors,  and  on  July  17,  1S59,  he  sailed  from  Surinam,  with  his  wife  and 
mother-in-law,  for  Boston,  Mass.,  arriving  at  that  place  on  August  7th,  following,  in- 
tending to  take  passage  thence  to  the  Cape.  Before,  however,  any  opportunity  offered, 
his  mother-in-law's  illness  and  death,  together  with  the  lateness  of  the  season,  compelled 
him  to  defer  his  purpose  till  the  following  spring.  On  learning  that  there  were  several  of 
his  own  countrymen  in  and  near  Boston  lie  sought  them  out,  and,  in  the  fall  of  1859, 
commenced  religious  services  among  them,  and  abandoned  the  project  of  removal  to  South 
Africa.  From  1859  to  i860  he  was  constant  in  his  missionary  labors  principally  among 
the  Hollanders  in  Boston  and  Roxbury.  Aided  and  supported  by  the  liberality  of  Mr. 
Abner  Kinsman,  a  wealthy  merchant  of  Boston,  he  secured  a  building  in  that  city,  and 
established  a  permanent  place  of  worship.  On  December  16,  1S62,  he  was  licensed  as  a 
Missionary  by  the  North  Suffolk  Association  of  Massachusetts,  and  on  February  11,  1S63, 
was  ordained  by  the  same  in  the  Spring  Street  Congregational  Church. 

In  December,  1S65,  Mr.  Bechthold  had  received  a  call  from  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  in  Paterson,  N.  J.,  to  which  place  he  removed,  and  where  he  remained  from 
■May,  1S66,  to  July,  1867,  when  he  returned  again  to  Boston,  where  he  continued  until 
1870,  preaching  in  the  Lenox  Street  Chapel  in  that  city.  In  January,  1S69,  he  received 
a  call  to  preach  to  his  countrymen  in  tins  city  in  their  native  language.  In  the  year  1866, 
they  had  organized  themselves  into  a  congregation  under  the.  name  of  the  Holland  Re- 
formed Church  with  the  Rev.  Henry  Uiterwyck  as  their  pastor,  having,  however,  no  per- 
manent place  of  worship.  On  Mr.  Bechthold's  arrival,  finding  them  lew  in  numbers,  and 
very  poor,  he,  at  once,  in  conjunction  with  the  more  active  elders  and  deacons,  set  about 
securing  a  place  for  their  meetings.  Through  the  favor  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church 
they  had  been  accorded  the  use  of  the  Chapels  of  the  Lafayette  Place,  and  of  the  Twenty- 
ninth  Street  Churches  for  alternate  services  morning  and  evening.  In  the  Chapel  of  the 
Twenty-ninth  Street  Church,  on  the  morning  oi  Sunday,  April  24,  1870,  Mr.  Bechthold 
held  his  first  service,  talcing  for  the  text  of  his  sermon  on  the  occasion,  the  seventeenth 
verse  of  the  ninth  chapter  of  Numbers. 

After  six  years  of  faithful  ministry  to  this  congregation  in  the  Dutch  language,  his 
own  persistent  efforts,  in  conjunction  with  those  of  other  members  and  friends  of  the 
church,  resulted  in  raising  a  fund  of  X20,ooo,  with  which  the  house  and  ground  No.  279 
West  Eleventh  Street  were  purchased.  The  lower  floor  was  fitted  up  as  a  church,  while 
the  upper  part  was  used  for  trie  pastor's  residence.  Here  Mr.  Bechthold  assiduously  and 
faithfully  continued  Iris  pastoral  work  until  the  time  of  his  death,  devoting  part  of  his  time 
in  attendance  at  Castle  Garden  on  the  arrival  of  German  and  Dutch  immigrants,  aiding 
them  by  his  counsel  and  advice,  especially  succoring  the  sick  and  feeble. 

On  June  14th,  last,  his  wife  died  after  a  prolonged  and  tedious  illness  of  nine  years, 
which  she  endured  with  great  Christian  fortitude.  He  lias  left  no  iineal  descendant. 
Funeral  services  were  held  in  the  church  on  the  morning  of  November  iSth,  and  his 
remains  were  interred  in  Greenwood. 

Mr.  Bechthold's  acquaintance  with,  ana  proficiency  in  the  Holland  Dutch  language, 
induced  the  Publication  Committee  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  So- 
ciety to  procure  his  aid  in  transcribing  the  Early  Original  Baptismal  and  Marriage  Records 
of  the  Dutch  Church  for  publication  in  the  magazine  issued  by  that  society.  To  Ids  care- 
ful and  faithful  performance  of  tins  task  the  readers  of  the  Record  are  indebted  for  the 
means  of  ready  research  in  this  invaluable  mine  of  genealogical  lore  respecting  the  early 
residents  of  New  Amsterdam.  j.  j.  l. 

Greene. — Samuel  Dana  Greene,  a  commander  in  the  United  States  Navy,  and  a  son 
of  General  George  S.  Greene,  late  President  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographi- 
cal Society,  died  at  Portsmouth  Navy  Yard,  December  u,  1SS4.  He  was  born  Feb- 
ruary ii,  1S40;  was  educated  at  the  Naval  Academy,  having  been  appointed  from  Rhode 
Island  ;  was  attached  to  the  Hartford  of  the  East  India  Squadron  in  1859,  and  commis- 
sioned as  lieutenant  in  1861.  He  was  the  executive  officer  of  the  Monitor  during  her 
famous  engagement  with  the  rebel  ram  Merrimac  in  Hampton  Roads,  March  9,  1862, 
and  her  commander  after  Captain  Worden  was  wounded,  just  previous  to  his  death, 
Commander]  Greene  completed  for  The  Century,  an  account  of  the  engagement  which 
will  appear  in  that  magazine's  series  of  war  papers.  He  was  buried  at  Bristol,  R.  I., 
where  his  widow  and  two  children  reside,  the  eldest,  S.  Dana  Greene,  a  naval  cadet,  be- 
ing absent  with  the  Mediterranean  Squadron.  Major  Charles  T.  Greene,  U.S.A.,  retired 
for  the  loss  of  a  leg,  at  Ringgold,  Ga.,  and  Francis  V.  Greene,  Captain  of  Engineers,  are 
brothers  of  the  deceased,  who  served  his  country  faithfully  and  gallantly,  afloat  and  ashore,  1 
for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  J./G.-  vvv ., ....-  - 

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COLONEL    JOHN    BAYARD    (1738-1807)    AND    THE    BAYARD 
FAMILY   OF  AMERICA. 

The   Anniversary  Address    before   the   New  York   Genealogical 

4vr>     BTO^RAPHICAL    SOCIETY,    FEBRUARY    27,     1SS5.* 


By  Gen.   Jas.  Grant  Wilson. 


Mr.  Chairman,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  Five  years  ago  to-night  I 
had  the  honor  of  appearing  in  this  place  to  deliver  the  annual  address  of 
1880.  On  that  occasion  I  selected  for  my  subject  Commodore  Isaac 
Hull,  the  most  skilful  naval  officer  of  either  service  engaged  in  the  war  of 
18 12-15  between  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain,  in  response  to 
the  invitation  to  address  you,  with  which  I  have  been  honored  a  second 
time,  and  remembering  what  that  grim  Scotchman  Carlyle  said  to  me  the 
summer  before  he  died,  that  "  biography  is  the  most  universally  pleasant 
no  less  than  universally  profitable  of  all  reading/'  I  have  selected  for  my 
subject  this  evening — which  happens  to  be  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of 
Longfellow — one  who  was  a  faithful  asserter  of  his  country's  cause  when 
America  rose  "to  repel  her  wrongs  and  to  claim  her  destinies  :,?  a  patriot 
alike  spotless  in  private  and  public  life,  and  a  personal  friend  of  Franklin, 
Hamilton,  Lafayette,  and  Washington.  A  truer  servant  of  his  country 
than  the  subject  of  the  paper  to  which  I  invite  your  attention,  did  not  live 
in  those  trying  times — 

"  Of  soul  sincere. 
In  action  faithful,  in  honor  clear." 

Among  the  hundred  thousand  Huguenot  fugitives  driven  from  France 
by  the  edict  of  Nantes,  and  by  the  religious  persecutions  which  preceded 
that  barbarous  Jesuit  edict  of  October  25,  1685,  were  many  who  fled  as 
the  Pilgrims  had  done  to  Holland ;  others  sought  refuge  in  the  New 
World,  and  their  descendants  were  such  men  as  John  Bayard,  Elias  Bou- 
dinot,  James  Bosvdoin,  Peter  Faneuii,  and  John  Jay. 

The  annals  of  the  American  Army  and  Navy,  of  the  Church  and  State, 
and  of  Commerce  have  ail  in  turn  been  illustrated  by  the  Huguenot  name 

*  A  portion  of  this  address  was  read  before  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society,  at  Newark,  May  16, 
1878,  and  published  in  their  volume  of  Proceedings  for  that  year. 


c;o  Colonel  John  Bayard  (1738-1807)  [April, 

of  Bayard  ;  but,  with  a  single  exception,  by  none  perhaps  rendered  more 
celebrated  than  by  the  patriotic  Christian  statesman,  soldier,  merchant, 
and  philanthropist,  Colonel  Bayard,  a  man  of  singular  purity  of  character, 
"  personally  brave,  pensive,  earnest,  and  devout,"  and  a  member  of  a 
family  which  has  in  the  course  of  two  centuries  intermarried  with  the 
VVashingtons,  of  Virginia;  the  Bassetts,  Carrolls,  Howards,  and  Wirts,  of 
Maryland  ;  the  Kembles,  Kirkpatricks,  Stevenses,  and  Stocktons,  of  Xew 
Jersey  ;  the  DeLanceys,  Jays,  Livingston?,  Pintards,  Schuylers,  Stuyve- 
sants,  and  Van  Rensselaers,  of  Xew  Vork  ;  and  the  Bowdoins  and  VVin- 
throps,  of  Massachusetts.  Four  of  the  Bayards  have  occupied  seats  in  the 
United  States  Senate  almost  continuously  during  the  present  century — a 
larger  and  longer  representation  than  has  yet  been  made  by  any  other 
family.  Several  of  Colonel  Bayard's  sons  and  grandsons  distinguished 
themselves  in  other  walks  of  life,  and  a  great-grandson,  General  Bayard,  of 
New  Jersey,  won  an  enviable  reputation  as  a  gallant  young  cavalry  leader 
in  our  late  war,  before  he  fell  on  the  disastrous  field  of  Fredericksburg. 

The  same  ship  that  brought  to  the  Western  World  and  landed  in  Xew 
Amsterdam,  as  Xew  York  was  then  called,  in  the  month  of  May,  1647,  the 
last  of  the  Dutch  governors  of  the  New  Netherlands,  had  also  on  board 
Stuyvesant's  beautiful  wife,  and  his  stately  sister  Anna,  widow  of  Samuel 
Bayard.  This  iady  was  accompanied  by  k:r  daughter,  Catherine,  and  three 
sons,  Fetrus.  Balthazar,  and  Nicholas.  These  brothers  are  the  ancestors 
of  the  American  Bayards,  and  from  the  first  named  is  descended  Colonel 
John  Bayard,  of  Bohemia  Manor,  Maryland. 

It  hai  been  a  long-cherished  tradition  in  the  family  that  the  father  of 
Samuel  Bayard  was  a  French  Protestant  divine  and  professor,  who,  with 
his  wife,  Blandina  Conde,  a  lady  of  rank,  fled  from  Paris  to  Holland  dur- 
ing the  religious  troubles  which  disturbed  their  native  land  in  the  sixteenth 
century.*  It  has  also  been  believed  that  he  was  a  kinsman  of  the  brilliant 
knight,  sans  pear  ei  sans  reprcehe,  who  bore  the  name  of  Pierre  du  Terrail, 
Seigneur  de  Bayard,  among  the  most  illustrious  soldiers  of  the  armies  of 
Fiancis  the  First,  of  France.  It  may  be  so;  but  my  belief  is  that  tradition 
is  worth  little,  and  that  she  is  the  mother  of  lies,  genealogically  speaking. 
While  sojourning,  a  few  summers  since,  at  the  Hague,  I  endeavored,  with 
the  aid  of  the  king's  librarian,  to  obtain  seme  trace  of  the  Rev.  Balthazar 
Bayard,  and  to  discover  the  missing  family  link,  but  without  success. 
Among  the  few  Bayards  of  whom  we  did  find  information  was  a  certain 
Captain  Martin  Bayard,  of  Ghent,  but  a  native  of  France,  who  was  second 
to  no  young  soldier  of  his  day  in  chivalric  deeds  of  daring,  With  his  Wal- 
loon troopers  he  thundered  upon  the  enemy,  like  the  brilliant  chevalier, 
visor  down  and  lance  in  rest  : — : 

"  They  quitted  not  their  harness  bright, 

Neither  by  day,  nor  yet  by  night : 

They  lay  down  to  rest, 

With  corselet  laced, 
Pillowed  on  buckler  cold  and  hard  : 

They  carved  at  the  meal 

With  gloves  of  steel, 
And  they  drank  the  red  wine  through  the  helmet  barred." 

*  A  sixteenth-century  painting  .preserved  in  New  Vork.  and  believed  by  its  possessor  to  be  the  portraits 
of  the  Rev.  Balthazar  Bayard  and  his  wife,  Biandina  Conde,  is  probably  a  representation  of  the  Rev.  Bal- 
thazar Stuyvesant  and  his  vile,  Margaret  Harcenstein.  The  clergyman  is  represented  with  a  Bible  and 
skull,  his  wife  with  look  and  chair,  ready  f  jr  church,  and  both  niore  resembling  natives  of  Holland  than  ct 
France. 


1885.]  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  r^  £ 

It  is  very  possible  that  this  second  Bayard*  of  the  good  city  of  Ghent, 
who  disappears  from  history  in  1576,  when  he  was  made  prisoner,  after 
slaying  several  of  the  enemy,  may  have  been  the  ancestor  of  Samuel 
Bayard,  who  died  previous  to  1647,  in  which  year,  as  has  been  already 
stated,  his  family  took  ship  for  New  Amsterdam,  where  they  arrived  on  the 
eleventh  day  of  May.f  Of  Samuel  Bayard,  whose  standing  in  society  may 
be  inferred  from  the  marriage  connection  which  he  made  with  the  sister  of 
Director-General  Stuyvesant,  who  married  his  only  sister  Judith  Bayard,  so 
that  they  were  doubly  brothers  in-law,  I  was  unsuccessful  in  obtaining  any 
information  beyond  the  fact  that  he  was  an  opulent  merchant  of  Amster- 
dam ;  but  of  his  wife  we  know  that  she  was  the  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Bal- 
thazar Stuyvesant,  of  Friesland,  by  his  first  wife  Margaret  Hardenstein, 
that  she  was  a  person  of  imposing  presence,  highly  educated,  with  great 
business  capacity,  and  possessing  a  somewhat  imperious  temper  not  unlike 
that  of  her  worthy  brother  with  the  wooden  leg. J  Madame  Bayard  was 
accompanied  by  a  tutor  who,  however,  soon  after  their  arrival  was  dis- 
charged as  being  unfit  for  the  position,  and  henceforth  she  herself  assumed 
the  duty  of  instructing  her  children,  teaching  them  among  other  things 
French,  English,  and  Dutch.  Her  proficiency  as  a  preceptor  is~ proved  by 
the  fact  that  her  youngest  son,  NiVhV*!*?,  while  still  a  youth,  was  appointed 
to  a  position,  the  records  of  which  were  required  to  be  kept  in  the  Dutch 
and  English  languages.  § 

Petrus,  the  eldest  son  of  Samuel  Bayard,  who  was  named  after  his  uncle 
Stuyvesant,  married,  November  4,  1674,  Blandina  Kierstede,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Hans  Kierstede  and  Sarah  Roelofs,  and  granddaughter  of  Jans  Roelofs  and 
his  wife,  the  celebrated  heiress  Annake  Jans.  They  resided  on  the  north- 
east corner  of  Broadway  and  Exchange  Place,  jl  where  their  children,  Samuel. 
Petrus,  and  Sarah,  were  born,  the  eldest  being  named  after  his  grandfather. 
Petrus,  or  Peter  Bayard,  in  1667  purchased  land  in  Ulster  Count}',  N.  V.. 

*  In  Holland  the  name  is  written  Bayert  and  Bayeart.  while  it  appears  in  ancient  New  York  documents 
as  Baird,  Biart,  Biard,  and  Kyard.  On  the  title-page  of  a  unique  copy  of  a  Journal  of  the  [.ate  Actions 
of  the  French  at  Canada,  London,  1693.  it  appears  as  Colonel  Nicholas  Beyard.  he  and  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Charles  Lodowick  being  the  joint  authors.  This  interesting  Bayard  brochure  is  included  in  the  valuable 
Americana  of  Mrs.  John  Carter  Brown,  of  Providence.      I  have  also  met  with  the  name  written  Beiard. 

t  They  embarked  in  the  Princess,  accompanied  by  three  vessels,  the  Great  <  ierrir.  the  Zwol.  and  the 
Raet.  In  the  same  ship  was  William  Beekman,  a' native  of  Statselt,  in  the  province  of'Overyssel.  Holland, 
the  progenitor  of  the  New  York  family  of  that  name.  During  their  long  and  boisterous  voyage  some  sixteen 
men  were  lost  overboard. 

%  The  exact  date  of  Anna  Bayard's  birth  is  not  known,  but  she  was  younger  than  her  brother,  immortal- 
ized by  Irving  as  "'Peter  the  Headstrong,"  in  Knickerbockers  solemn  and  veracious  History  of  New  York, 
who  was  born  in  1602.  Madame  Bayard  was  greatly  respected  by  the  public  and  well  known  for  her  many 
acts  of  charity  and  kindness.  In  1657  she  interfered  in  the  case  of  the  Quaker,  Robert  Hodgsi  n,  wh  ■'.  as  un- 
justly and  severely  treated  by  the  Governor.  She  was  fuil  cf  compassion,  and  at  her  prayers  and  righteous 
indignation,  Stuyvesant  relented,  Hodgson's  (or  Hodshone's,  as  it  is  written-  fine  was  remitted.,  a. id  he 
was  released  from  prison,  but  he  was  banished  from  the  Colony.  Owing  to  Madame  Bayard's  action  in  this 
case,  no  Quakers  were  from  that  time  forward  so  cruelly  persecuted  in  the  New  Netherlands  as  He  d  ;-  :>n  had 
been.  The  original  spelling  of  her  name  was  Stuyfsant.  In  a  list  of  members  of  the  Church  at  Benicum  in 
FriesLind  where  her  father  officiated,  is  this  entry  :  ''July  19,  1622,  on  a  Friday,  am  I  Balthazar  Stuyfsant 
with  my  wife  and  children  come  to  live  at  Berlicum."  The  name  is  derived  from  stuiven,  to  stir  or  raise  a 
dust,  and  sand,  being  the  same  in  both  the  Dutch  and  English.  His  wife  died  at  Berlicum,  May  2.  1625. 
at  the  age  of  fifty.  Two  years  later  he  married  Stientie  Pieters  of  Harlem,  and  of  this  marriage  there  was 
born  Balthazar  and  three  others.  Stuyfsant  left  Berlicum  for  Diefgyl  in  Guerland  in  1634,  where  he  died 
and  was  buried  in  the  summer  of  1637.  The  good  clergyman  and  his  aristocratic  and  arbitrary  son,  at- 
tained to  the  same  age — four  score  years. 

§  A  large  painting  is  preserved  in  the  family,  of  Samuel  and  Anna  Bayard  and  their  four  children  at  their 
country-seat  at  Alphen,  a  small  town  of  South  Holland,  on  the  old  Rhine,  and  some  seven  miles  from  Leyden. 
where  Peter  was  born.  The  picture  was  probably  painted  just  previous  to  Bayard's  death,  circa  1640. 
Another  family  portrait  in  the  p  jssessi  >n  of  Edward  V.  De  Lancey,  and  formerly  owned  by  Sir  James  Jay. 
painted  about  1690,  is  that  of  Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Balthazar  Bayard,  who  married  Augustus  Jay. 

I  His  bi  ther  Balthazar  lived  in  Vii  adjoining  house  :  his  youngest  brother.  Nicholas,  in  the  High  Street, 
and  his  sister,  Madame  de  Meyert,  in  Smith's  Valley,  near  the'present  Centre  Street.  Their  aunt,  the  Widow 
Stuyvesant,  resided  on  the  Bowerie  road,  "beyond  the  Fresh  Water."  Balthazar  married  Maria  Locker- 
mans  in  1664,  and  Nicholas  married  Judith  Variet  in  the  year  1666.  Their  descendants  in  the  male  line  are 
1  believe,  extinct,  while  those  of  the  eider  brother  are  numerous. 


52  Col   xel  John   Bayard   (173S-1807)  [April, 

and  December  27,  1675,  received  from  Governor  Andros,  a  grant  or  an 
island  of  six  hundred  acres  in  the  Dela  >are  River,  which  on  May  4.  1879, 
he  purcha      If    in  the  In  ;    ners.     The  deed*  describes  it  as  Be 

Hook    [slai   I   (now  known   as  Bombay  Hook:,   and   it   is   sigi  e 
m     k  of  a  turtl z.  : .      be     g  the  sig        f  the  3  re  chiefs.     As  rea  lers 

of  Cooper's  "Last     f  the  J  I  remember,  the    !      overy  o:   I    ■ 

turtle  tatooed  or.  the  reast  ofUncas  save.;  his  life.  The  joining  of  the 
son  of  the  chief  in  this  deed  uld  seem  to  indicate  the  exis- 

tence : :'  a  law  of  entail    am    ng    the  1       .  -~;.     Al  -  5  his  pui    i>se  of 

-  his  new  purchase,  Peter  Baj  ard  cast  i     his  1 

a  company  of  religious  colonists  :  alle  I  La  lists,  lis  iples  fJeandeLa- 
badie,  a  French  enthusiast,  holding  the  doctrines  of  the  Dutch  Church,  but 
ado]  ing  other  opinions  and  practices  not  recognized  by  the  Reformed 
Church,  and,  in  1684,  assisted  them  in  the  purchase  and  occupancy  of  tl  e 
four  necks  01   Ian  1  have  ever  since   been   known  as  the  I  al 

Tract.f      He,  however,  sc    n  after  disj     sed  of  his  share     "  jpert 

returned  to  New  York,  sphere,  accoi  ling  to  his  family  Bible.J  he  died  i 
1699,  possessing,  in  addition  to  the  property  already  described,  what  is 
now  known  as  numl  .:  ne  Broad  ay,  which  then  extended  to  the  Hud- 
son. It  was  s  I  '  by  tl  z  .  .  irds  in  1745.  'v-:-  lotsr^two  and  three,  to 
Captain  Kennedy,  aft  rwards  Earl  ol  Cassiiis,  the  witnesses  being  1 
Van  Cortlandt  and  Pete]  Schuyler.  From  the  rear  windows  of  the 
spacious  mansion  which  he  soon  after  erected,  there  was  a  fine  view  of  the 
New  Jersey  hill-.  Among  other  cherished  family  souvenirs  is  a  small  volume 
of  French  f  :  ins,  beautifully  bound,  with  clasps,  which  was  presented  to 
Madame  Bayard  in  the  year  1664,  She  survived  hei  husband,  and  died  on 
her  Li: a  iay  in  1 7c:. 

The  year  irefcre  i  is  father's  leara.  5j  ....el  Pay.  '  removed  from  New 
York  to  Bohemia  Manor,  Cecil  County,  1  i.,  and  pi  ;1  ased,  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Hendrick  Sluyter,  r>ne  of  the  four  necks  of  land  that  srigin- 

c  For  an     Ffi  -       :   ■  •    : f  tl      iris     '     ; : .     "  ;bted  to  the  courtesy  of  the  Secretary  of  State  -   as 

Francis  Bayard  -  :    .  -  g       t-gi  Basset!,  his      re  lis  uncle  ]  rd 

H.  Bayard,  his  fa     sr.  as  2  of  the  j      states  Senate.      [  desire  als     to  acknowledge      ;.-.:- 

deb::  iness  for  data  1       lb  !        .  .        j  I     .      -       ■ .  -       tor  of  the  Pes     sylvania  Maga      eof  Hi        yand 

Biograf       •_.'.-"■.       .  •_    i   r.    '-.     ..-:•.  an     '        ...  i  ! •  .  -         :'  I  aterscn,  X.  J. 

t  Bayard  was  adra        i  a  >  :r       the  1      !  turch    .-.    p  tst  3      1674.  and    -~\     ate    '..;  1     tne  on  the 

margin  of  their  records  are  the  .         L       .-.••.:-:."-.-__-  :a  Lahadist         ppo- 

s:te   to  the  name  -  the  Lahadists  are      -  :  .      die  words,  "  Vitam  L.aguea 

Jlxipitf"      I        La  :  Danker,     f  net  Bayard  in  Ne      Vor        nites  under  date  of  June  4, 

i63o:  "Visited  -        if  Augustine  1       nnan,  proprietor     1        rtestia  Manor),  and      le  -  et  .-.- 

Beyaert    1  deacon     t  the  1  g  sou  n  the  Lord  had  begun  to  trouble  a     L  en- 

"— Ne     's  Fou  >of  ]  id,  !     157. 

(This  large  ai         :  .  ■  ■  :"  the  j  -     f  his  desce     [ant.  Mrs  James  Grant  "■".'    -         if 

New  York,  was  printed  at  1  ire  r,  in  169a,  and  is  istxated  i  ...  -  _  perplate  engravings  and 
1      .  -      The  title-page  to  t  Id  Tes         :    :    -    ■    -       /  .  le  is  other      se  perfect,  and        the  orig- 

ina  binding  th  strong  brass  clasps  and  corner-pieces.  The  record  is  nritten  in  Dutch,  of  which  the  folic  - 
ing  is  a  Iran  Jal 

1.  My  father,  Petrus  Bayard,   lied  in  New  York    in  t    e  year  1699. 

2.  My  honored  mother,  1,0     i  in  New  York,  in  the  year  1702, 

3-  Samuel  Bayard,  eldest  son  of  Petru  in  the  year  1675. 

4.  His       • ':-.  S  .   ..  '  na  1  eile       -  -       rn  it  1677. 

5.  '    iir  daughter,  Anna  Maria     i      1  Jar    ary  12    1716 

red  hus  .    Sam                                     .  '.      .-■;.••    evening,  November  23,  172T,  at  ten 

>*c            md  rested  in  the  1  ere        forcer      aps  in  joy  what  he  hath  here  s      a.  in  sorrow.    Ame 

-     My]       >red  mother,  A  .        irg  ti  ia  _      let,    tied     i»  S«  turday  m   :.   ng,  I  rceml  -.:  :;.  :-.:.  al   cine 

o'clock,  and  blessed,  rests  fore  the  1     rd  Jes       L       -: 

I.   ' '.  ■  z    lored      -    ther,  H  :k  S     yter,  died    >n    -  .    lay  evei      :    Fe    -  1  u y  %.   1722,  at  -  z    I 

An  I  :    -       tered  foreve  :  rest  of  the  Lord,            .:.           :s       .       th  all  his  saints,  unceasingly  rh      c. 

honor,  and  pra     s  to  a     a  A:  rn. 

9.  My  1         -  ls  Sluyter,  died  on  Friday,  April  14,  1714,  at  three  o'c          in  the  afternoon, 

u'r.a  py,  re  the  -  .  F  .  -  .1  :  t  :  [  fight  .  -  f  ed  the  reward  of  a 
faith       - .:        :  for  - 1         be  now  gives     >od  praise,  b     lor,  ;..*•*--..  and       all  to  ail  eternity. 


i  S85.]  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  n 

ally  constituted  the  Labadie  Tract.*  In  1716,  they  divided  their  posses- 
sions, Bayard  having  previously  erected  on  his  share  what  was  then  and  has 
ever  since  been  known  as  the  "  Great  House,"  a  large  and  substantial 
brick  mansion.  Here  he  brought  his  wife  Susannah  Bouchelle,  and  after 
her  death  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Sluyter,  the  writer  of  the  record  in 
Peter  Bayard's  Bible.  She  survived  her  husband,  who  died  in  1721,  and  at 
her  death  their  son  James — the  other  children  being  Peter,  Samuel,  and 
Mary  Ann  |- — inherited  the  "  Great  House."  He  married  Mary  Asheton, 
and  had  three  children — two  sons  and  a  daughter,  who  died  in  her  seven- 
teenth year.  She  was  engaged  to  the  Rev.  John  Rodgers,  who,  four  years 
later,  married  her  cousin  Elizabeth  Bayard.  The  sons,  John  Bubenheim 
and  James  Asheton,  were  twins,  their  ages  differing  half  an  hour.  These 
twin-brothers  became  objects  of  the  most  tender  solicitude  to  their  accom- 
plished grandmother,  Mrs.  Samuel  Bayard,  who  strove  from  the  earliest  dawn 
of  reason  to  imbue  their  minds  with  sentiments  of  honor  and  piety.  "  It  is/' 
says  Micheletj  "  a  universal  rule  that  great  men  resemble  their  mothers,  who 
impress  their  mental  and  physical  mark  upon  their  souls."  In  this  instance, 
although  I  do  not  presume  to  class  the  twin-brothers  among  great  men,  the 

_*  His  cousin  Samuel,  son  of  Nicholas  Bayard,  purchased  in  i-n  apart  of  the  Island  of  Weehawken. 
His  grandson,  Colonel  William  Bayard,  espoused  the  Loyalist  side  in  the  Revolution,  and  the  Hoboken 
property  was  confiscated.  It  was  purchased  in  -^c-  by  Colone!  John  Stevens  (1749-1838)  and  by  the  mar- 
riage of  his  son  Edwin  A.,  with  a  descendant  of  Peter  Bayard,  the  property  came  back  to  the  Bayards.  The 
original  deed  now  hangs  on  the  walls  of  the  principal  apartment  at  Castle  Point,  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
Martha  Bayard  Stevens.  In  the  writer's  possession  is  an  earlier  document  on  heavy  yellow  parchment  and 
in  excellent  preservation  endorsed  as  follows,  by  Samuel  Bayard's  father:  "Deed  of  Sale  from  Tadis  Mi- 
chielson  and  Anna  his  wife  of  the  Land  at  Wiehaaken — Nicholas  Bayard."  The  document  reads  as  follows, 
a  few  words  being  illegible  : 

"  To  all  Christian  People  to  whom  This  present  writing  shall  come,  Tadis  Michielse  of  Wiehaken  within 
the  County  of  Bergen  in  the  Province  of  East  New  Yorke.  Youman.  and  Anna  his  wife  send  Greeting  in 
our  Lord  God  Everlasting; — Knowyee  that  the  said  Tadis  Michielse  and  Anna  his  wife  for  and  in  con- 
sideration of  the  sum  often  shillings  currant  money  of  New  York  before  signing  and  delivery  hereof  to  them 
in  hand  paid  by  Co!!*'  Nicholaes  Bayard  of  the  City  of  New  York.  Merchant,  the  receipt  v.  hereof  is  hereby 
acknowledged  and  thereof  and  of  every  part  and  parcel!  thereof  do  acquit,  Exhonorate  and  discharge  the 
said  Collo  Nicholaes  Bayard,  his  heires  and  assigns  for  ye  same  :  Have  given,  granted,  Bargained,  sold 
Transferred  and  confirmed  by  these  presents  do  give  grannt  Bankable  sell  Transport  and  Confirme  unto  the 
said  Co.ilP  Nicholaes  Bayard,  his  heires  and  assignes  forever  all  that  thine  farme  and  plantation  seituat  lying 
and  Beeing  at  Wiehaken  within  the  County  of  Bergen  aforesaid  containing  twenty  three  acres  of  upland  in 
length   along   the   Foot  of  the  hill,  twenty  two  chaines  Northeast  and  Southwest  in  breadth,  at  _    ,  and 

eighteene  chaines,  and  at  the  northend  foure  chaines  bee  it  more  or  lesse.  Bounded  on  the  south  by  his  on  ne 
Meddow,  east  by  hudson's  river,  north   by  a  small    Brooke  and  west  by  the  Mountaine  :  a  parcel  of 

Meddow  containing  sixteen  acres  lying  on  the  Southwest  side  of  said  Land,  in  breadth  ten  cheanes  and  in 
length  sixteen  cheanes.  bee  it  more  or  '.esse  Bounded  on  the  west  by  the  hills,  east  by  hudson's  river,  south 
by  the  small  creeke  (called  the  Northwest  bounds  of  hoboken  Creek;  and  north  by  its  own  upland,  together 
with  all  the  bowses  outhouses,  barnes  stabells.orchers,  trees,  fences,  woods  &  underwood,  as  allso  all  the 
right,  titel  Intrist  property  claim  &  demand  whatsoever  which  the  said  Tadis  Michielse  and  Anna  his  wife 
in  right  of  the  said  farme-have  had  or  ought  to  have  in  and  to  the  Cotnmens  and  undivided  pasture  &  woodland 
belonging  to  the  said  Corporation  of  Bergen  and  adjasent  farmes  Szc  together  with  all  profitts,  commoddities 
and  appurtenances  thereinto  belonging  or  in  anywise  appui  taining  and  all  the  estate,  right  titel  intrest 
property  claime  and  demand  whatsoever  of  them— the  said  Tadis  Michielse  and  Anna  his  wife  of,  in,  or  to 
the  same  or  any  part  thereof ;  To  Have  and  To  Hold  the  said  farme  or  plantation  and  meddow  together 
with  all  the  bowses,  outhouses  baernes,  stabels,  orchers,  trees,  fences,  woods  is:  underwoods  as  allso  ail  their 
right  &  titel  to  the  undivided  pasture  &  woodland  as  aforesaid  together  with  ail  and  singular  the  heredite- 
ments  and  appurtenances'untoye  said  Nicnolaes  Bayard,  his  heires  and  Assignes  to  the  sole  and  on'y  proper 
use  benefit  and  behove  of  him,  the  said  Nicholaes  Bayard  his  heires  and  assignes  forever—and  the  said  Tadis 
Michielse  and  Anna  his  wife  do  for  themselfes.  theire  heires.  Exec"  &  admin';  covenant  grannt  and  agree 
to  &  with  said  Nicholaes  Bayard  his  heires  and  assignes  that  hee  the  said  Nicholaes  Bayard  his  heires  and 
assignes  shall  peacable,  and  quietly  have  hold  occupy  and  ye  aforesaid  ffarme  and  peece  of  meddow 

with  theire  appurtenances  freed  & 'cleared  of  all  &  all  manner  of  fformer  bargaines  sales  enfeofments.  dow- 
ries, judgements  executions  and  all  other  incombriences  whatsoever  to  bee  at  any  time  hereafter  warranted 
and  defended  by  ye  said  Tadis  Michielse  and  Anna  his  wife  and  their  heires  against  all  persons  whatsoever 
by  those  present  In  Wittnisse  whereof  the  said  Tadrse  Michielse  and  Anna  his  wife  have  hereunto  sett 
their  hands  &  seales  this  twentieth  of  March  in  the  sivinth  .  .  .  yeare  of  the  Reigne  of  o«"  Sovereign  Lord 
and  Lady  William  and  Mary  by  the  grace  of  God  King  and  Queene  of  England.  Scotland.  fTrance.  and  Ire- 
land, defender  of  ye  ffaigth  and  in  the  yeare  of  or  Lord  God,  one  thousand  six  hundred  ninety  and  four. 
Tadis  Michielson  Anna  Michielson, 

Sealed  and  delivered  in  ye  presence  of  us  hur  X  marke 

Jacob  Mayle  Jr.  Gerrit  Onckolbag  : 
and  sworn  to  before  Clars  Arondson,  one  of  the  Justices  for  the  County  of  Bergen. 

t  Mary  Ann  Bayard  married  Peter  Bouchelle,  whose  sister  was  married  to  Colonel  Peter  Bayard,  brother 
of  James  and  Samuel. 


54  Colonel  Jolin  Bayard  (i 738-1807)  [April, 

sons  appear  to  have  passed  by  one  generation,  and  to  have  inherited  their 
grandmother's  mental  and  physical  characteristics  rather  than  those  of  their 
maternal  parent. 

John  Bubenheim  Bayard  was  born  in  the  "  Great  House,"  on  Bohemia 
Manor,  August  11,  1 73S.  His  father,  who  by  adding  commercial  enter- 
prise and  industry  to  the  successful  cultivation  of  his  large  estate,  had  ac- 
cumulated what  at  that  primitive  time  was  considered  a  handsome  property, 
died  without  a  will,  and  being  die  eldest  son,  John  became,  by  the  Colonial 
laws  of  Maryland,  entitled  to  all  the  real  estate.  Such,  however,  was  his 
affection  for  his  brother,  that  no  sooner  had  he  inherited  the  property,  than 
he  conveyed  one-half  of  it  to  him.*  It  was  at  this  period,  1  may  mention 
en  passant,  that  he  abandoned  the  use  of  his  middle  name,  received  from 
John  Bubenheim,  who  spoke  of  James  Bayard  as  his  "well-beloved  friend." 
The  twin-brothers  were  educated  at  the  Nottingham  Institution,  in  Mary- 
land, conducted  by  the  Rev.  Samuel  Finley,  D.D.,  afterward  President  of 
the  College  of  New  Jersey  at  Princeton.  One  of  the  elder  brother's  de- 
scendants t  remembered  often  hearing  her  grandfather  relate  the  story  of 
his  school  discipline.  On  Monday  morning  of  every  week  the  master 
went  into  the  chambers  and  gave  each  boy  a  sound,  able-bodied  thrashing 
to  brace  them  up  through  the  ensuing  seven  days.  Young  America  of  1SS5 
would  neither  approve,  nor,  I  imagine,  submit  to  Dr.  Fin-ley's  old-time 
Irish  methods  of  instruction. 

Having  completed  their  course  at  the  academy,  which  acquired  and 
maintained  a  high  reputation,  and  survived  their  weekly  whippings,  the 
brothers  continued  their  classical  studies  at  Bohemia  Manor,  having  for 
their  private  tutor  the  Rev.  George  DufnVld,  who,  a  few  years  later,  became 
an  eminent  Presbyterian  divine. J  At  eighteen  the  brothers  left  their  Mary- 
land home  for  Philadelphia,  "  the  genealogical  centre  of  the  United  States," 
as  Dr.  Holmes  wiitily  calls  the  Quaker  City,  John  to  enter  the  counting-house 
of  John  Rhea,  a  rich  and  highly  respected  merchant,  while  James  began  the 
study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  Thomas  Cadwalader.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  John  Bayard  married  Margaret  Hodge, §  and  in  the  course  of  a  few 
years  he  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  Philadelphia. 
When  only  twenty  seven  his  name  appears  among  the  first  signers  of  the 
non-importation  agreement  of  October  25,  1765,  to  which  was  appended 
the  signatures  of  three  hundred  and  seventy-five  merchants  of  Philadelphia. 
This  interesting  document,  the  '-First  Declaration  of  Independence,*'  is 
preserved  by  the  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society.  In  the  autumn  of  1759 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bayard  made  a  tour  to  New  York  |j  and  Boston,  which,  in  the 

*  While  the  writer  was  in  England  in  1879,  the  late  Lord  Durham  died,  leaving  two  sons — twin-brothers 
— so  marvellously  alike  that  the  elder  had  to  be  marked  for  identification.  By  the  English  law  of  primo- 
geniture the  eldest  inherited  both  the  title  and  the  property.  This  troubled  the  kind  and  considerate  father,  and 
he  determined  that  the  one  who  had  the  bad  fortune  to  come  into  the  world  thirty  minutes  after  his  luckier 
brother,  the  present  Lord  Durham,  should  have  a  handsome  provision  made  for  him  in  spite  of  the  iaw  of  en- 
tail. He  therefore  buiit  and  laid  otic  a  charming  residence,  which  die  dilatory  twin,  the  Hon.  Frederick  W. 
Lambton.  now  own-;  and  enjoys,  t  gether  with  a  comfortable  income. 

t  Mrs.  Mary  Kirkpatrick  How.  the  eldest  and  last  survivor  of  the  six  children  of  Chief  Justice  Kirk- 
patrick.     She  died  at  New  Brunswick,  X.  J.,  March,  17,  1882.  in  the  eighty-ninth  year  of  her  age. 

t  "Yesterday  I  receive  i  a  letter  from  your  brother  Samuel  informing  me  of  the  de3th  of  my  old  friend 
and  tutor  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dufneld." — Colonel  Bayard  to  his  daughter,  February  6,  1790,  addressed  "Miss 
Jane  Bayard,  at  New  Rochelle.     Honored  by  Dr.   I.  R.  1*.  Rodgers." 

§  Daughter  of  Andrew  Hodge,  of  Phih  ielphia,  and  an  aunt  of  the  late  Professor  Charles  Hodge,  LL.D., 
of  Princeton.  X.  J,     Another  daughter  soon  after  married  Dr.    fames  Asheton  Bayard. 

I  From  Philadelphia  to  Nkw-York. — Philadelphia  stage  wagon  and  New-York  stage  boat  perform 
their  stages  twice  a  week.  John  Butler,  with  his  wagon,  sets  out  on  Mondays  from  his  house,  at  the  si^n 
of  the  Death  of  the  Fox.  in  Strawberry-alley,  rmd  drives  the  same  day  to  Trenton  Ferry,  when  Francis  Hol- 
nvm  meets  him  ami  proceeds  on  Tuesday  t  >  Brunswick,  and  the  passengers  and  goods  being  shifted  into 
lb  ;  v  agon  uf  Isaac  I  itzrand  >\yh  he  take-  them  t  >  the  New  Blazing  Star,  to  Jacob  f  itzrandolph's,    the  same 


1SS5.]  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America,  cr 

estimation  of  their  friends,  was  as  great  an  event,  as  a  trip  in  our  day  to  the 
heart  of  Russia.  They  were  the  guests  of  Colonel  William  Bayard,  of 
New  York,  at  his  estate  on  the  North  River,  celebrated  for  its 

"  Moss'd  trees  that  have  out-liv'd  the  eagle," 

and  of  Balthazar  Bayard,  a  Boston  kinsman,  who  married  Mary,  sister  of 
Governor  Bowdoin,  of  Massachusetts. 

John  Bayard  early  became  a  communicant  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Philadelphia,  then  under  the  charge  of  the  Rev.  Gilbert  Terment, 
and  was  chosen  a  trustee  and  ruling  elder.  The  famous  George  Whitefield, 
in  his  seventh  and  last  visit  to  this  country,  in  1769,  met  Mr.  Bayard,  whom- 
he  had  known  as  a  child  and  a  youth,  while  visiting  his  grandmother.  They 
made  several  tours  together,  and  when  Whitefield  preached  in  the  vicinity  of 
Bohemia  Manor,  he  was  accompanied  by  his  friend  Bayard  and  was  his 
guest,  occupying  an  apartment  which  was  ever  afterward  known  as  "  White- 
field's  room."  So  greatly  attached  was  the  gifted  preacher  to  his  admiring 
friend  Bayard  that  he  often  expressed  a  wish  to  have  his  remains  deposited 
in  the  family  burial-place  at  Bohemia  Manor,  should  it  be  his  lot  to  die  in 
America.* 

Dr.  James  Asheton  Bayard,  a  man  of  sootless  character,  and  already  of 
good  reputation  as  a  physician,  died  January  8,  1770.  The  violence  of 
his  brother's  grief  was  so  great  as  to  produce  a  serious  illness  which  con- 
fined him  to  his  bed  for  several  days.  By  degrees  it  subsided  into  a  tender 
melancholy,  which  for  years  after  would  steal  across  his  mind  and  tinge 
his  hours  of  domestic  intercourse  and  solitary  devotion  with  pensive  sad- 
ness. When  the  widow  ivas  soon  after  bid  by  the  side  of  her  husband, 
John  Bayard  adopted  their  children, f  educating  and  treating  them  in  all 
respects  as  his  own,  of  whom,  by  the  way,  he  had  a  most  abundant  supply 
— no  less  than  nine  sons,  and  live  daughters.  Of  these,  however,  only 
eight  attained  to  mature  years. 

John  Bayard  was  among  the  first  to  raise  his  voice  in  opposition  to  the 
attempt  of  Great  Britain  to  tax  and  otherwise  oppress  the  American 
Colonies.  He  heard  his  country's  call,  and  it  moved  his  noble  nature  like 
the  blast  of  a  trumpet.  He  gave  his  time  to  the  public  weal,  acting  on 
the  recommendation  of  the  sacred  writer,  "  Whatsoever  thy  hand  fmdeth 
to  do,  do  it  with  all  thy  might."  Whoever  else  quailed  in  view  of  the  ap- 
proaching struggle,  Bayard  never  for  a  moment  gave  way  to  doubt  of 
ultimate  success,  he  never  despaired, 

"  Nor  bate  a  jot 
Of  heart  or  hope  ;  but  still  bears  up  and  steers 
Right  onward." 

He  took  an  active  part  in  all  the  questions  of  the  day,  which  in  any  way 
affected  the  interests  of  the  Colonies.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial 
Congress  held  in  July,  1774;  the  calling  of  which  compelled  the  Assembly 
to  appoint  delegates  to  the  General  Congress  ;  and  was  one  of  the  sixty 
citizens  chosen  on  the   12th  of  November,  to  see  to   the  fulfilment  on  the 

day,  where  Rubin  Fiurandolph,  with  a  boat  well  fitted,  will  receive  them  and  take  them  to  New- York 
that  night.  John  Butler,  returning  to  Philadelphia  on  Tuesday  with  the  passensers  and  goods  delivered  to 
him  by  Francis  Hoiman,  will  again  set  out  for  Trenton  terry  on  Thursday,  a>id  Francis  Holman,  &C,  will 
carry  his  passengers  and  goods  with  the  same  expedition  as  above  to  New  York.—  From  the  Pennsylvania 
Journal  May  24,   1759. 

*  He  died  at  NV.vburyport,  Mass.,  and  was  buried  there,  October  third,  1770. 

t  Jane  Bayard,   John  Hodge  Bayard,  and   James  Asheton  Bayard. 


^(j  Colonel  John  Bayard  ( 1 738-1807)  [April, 

part  of  Philadelphia,  of  the  articles  of  Association  entered  into  by  that 
body.  In  January,  1775,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Convention  of  the 
Province,  the  ostensible  object  of  which  was  the  encouragement  of  domes- 
tic industry,  while  it  really  was  meant  to  exercise  a  supervision  of  the 
conduct  of  the  Assembly.  John  Adams  tells  us  that  Bayard  early  joined 
the  Sons  of  Liberty,  *  and  in  his  diary  mentions  him  as  one  of  a  Com- 
mittee of  that  Association  who,  with  Doctors  Rush  and  Mifflin,  intercepted 
at  Frankford,  near  Philadelphia,  the  members  of  Congress  of  1775,  from 
the  North,  as  they  came,  for  the  purpose  of  influencing  them  to  choose 
Washington  as  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Army.  At  the  commencement 
of  the  war,  the  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania  was  not  in  favor  of  Indepen- 
dence, but  the  people  were  bent  upon  it,  and  a  great  public  meeting  took 
place  in  Philadelphia  in  1776,  the  object  of  which  was  to  compel  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Legislature  to  declare  for  independence  or  resign.  "  On  the 
twenty-fourth  of  May,"  says  Bancroft,  "  a  town  meeting  of  more  than  four 
thousand  men  was  held  in  the  State  House  yard  to  confront  the  instruc- 
tions of  the  Tories  as  well  as  of  the  Assembly  against  independence,  with 
the  vote  of  the  Continental  Congress  against  oaths  of  allegiance  and  the 
exercise  of  any  kind  of  authority  under  the  Crown.  It  was  called  to 
order  by  John  Bayard,  Chairman  of  the  Inspection  Committee  for  the 
County  ot  Philadelphia ;  a  patriot  of  singular  purity  of  character  and 
disinterestedness,  personally  brave,  earnest,  and  devout."*]'  In  the  same 
year  his  firm  of  Hodge  6c  Bayard  was  engaged  in  furnishing  arms  to  Con- 
gress, and  a  privateer  htted  out  by  him  and  his  friend,  General.  Roberdeau, 
of  Philadelphia,  was  among  the  first  to  capture  a  valuable  British  prize. 
Bayard  was  appointed,  with  others,  by  the  Committee  of  Safety  to  superin- 
tend the  erection  of  powder  mills.  In  June,  he  attended,  as  a  member, 
the  meeting  of  the  "  Committee  of  Conference "  held  in  Carpenter's 
Hall,  to  decide  upon  the  manner  in  which  a  convention  should  be  called 
to  alter  the  Constitution  of  the  Province  :  it  was  this  body  that  announced 
its  "willingness  to  concur  in  a  vote  of  the  Congress,"  declaring  the  inde- 
pendence of  the  Colonies.  In  September,  Bayard  was  appointed  one  of 
the  Council  of  Safety  by  the  Constitutional  Convention,  to  which  position 
he  was  reappointed  by  the  Assembly  the  following  year,  his  associates  being 
such  men  as  Benjamin  Franklin,  David  Rittenhouse,  Anthony  Wayne, 
Robert  Morris,  Daniel  Roberdeau,  Joseph  Reed,  and  John  Cadwalader. 
In  October  we  find  him  presiding  at  a  public  meeting  in  the  State  Plouse 
grounds,  at  which  the  merits  of  the  new  State  Constitution  were  debated, 
and  in  the  month  following  he  took  his  seat  as  a  member  of  the  Assembly, 
in  the  first  session  of  that  body  held  under  the  new  instrument. 

When  the  echoes  of  the  guns  of  Lexington  and  Concord  were  heard  in 
Philadelphia,  three  battalions  of  infantry  were  organized  among  the  lead- 
ing gentlemen  and  merchants,  and  Bayard  was  chosen  Colonel  of  the 
second,  the  first  being  commanded  by  Colonel  Jacob  Morgan,  and  the 
third  by  Colonel  John  Cadwalader,  who,  as  senior  officer,  was  assigned  to 
the  command  of  the  brigade,  including  three  battalions  of  infantry,  and  a 
troop  of  light  horse, J  commanded  by  Capt.  Samuel  Morris,  and  known  as 

*  This  patriotic  association  organized  in  1776,  adopting;  Colonel  Barre's  designation,  calling  themselves 
Sons  of  Liberty.  Its  organization  extended  throughout  the  Colonies  from  Massachusetts  to  South  Carolina, 
and  included  such  men  as  Francis  Dana,  John  Payard,  William  Faca,  and  Samuel  Chase. 

t  History  of  the  United  States.     Centenary  Ed.      Boston,  1076.  vol.  v.,  pp.  264. 

J  These  troops  did  not  belong  to  the  regular  Army,  but  were  known  as  the  Philadelphia  Associators. 
lohn  Cox  \va^  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  William  Bradford  Major  of  the  second  battalion.  A  history  of  the 
IrVst  Troop  Philadelphia   City  Cavalry  from  1774  to    1874,  has  been  courteously  sent  tome  by  its  present 


18S5.J  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  cy 

the  Philadelphia  City  Cavalry.     Christopher  Marshall  in  his  diary  gives  us 
a  glimpse  of  this  corps: 

"  1 7 75,  June  8th. — I  rose  before  5,  breakfasted  and  went  on  the  Com- 
mons past  7,  came  back  past  9  :  then  by  10  went  again  and  stayed  till 
past  2,  viewing  the  parade  of  the  three  battalions  of  Militia  of  the  City  and 
Liberties,  with  the  Artillery  company  (with  two  12  pounders  and  four  6 
pound  brass  field  pieces),  a  troop  of  Light  Horse,  several  companies  of 
Light  Infantry,  Rangers,  and  Riflemen; — in  the  whole  above  two  thousand 
men,  who  joined  in  one  brigade,  and  went  through  their  manual  exercises, 
firings,  and  manoeuvres  in  the  presence  of  General  Lee,  the  Continental 
Congress,  and  several  thousand  spectators." 

Colonel  Bayard  was  in  camp  with  his  command  at  Amboy,  in  August, 
1776,  as  we  learn  from  a  private  letter  written  by  William  Bradford,  Major 
of  his  battalion,  who  says  :  "This  night  I  intend  sleeping  in  Camp.  We 
have  got  a  very  agreeable  Mess,  which  consists  of  Dr.  Duffield,  Colonel 
Bayard,  Colonel  Cox,  myself,  Dr.  Shippen,  Dr.  Jackson,  Dr.  Philc.  We 
are  in  the  house  of  the  Chief- Justice,  who  has  left  part  of  his  Furniture  and 
Two  Servants." 

Early  in  the  winter  of  1776-77,  Bayard  was  in  the  field  with  his  bat- 
talion. From  his  camp  at  Bristol  he  writes,  under  date  of  December  13th, 
to  the  Council  of  Safety:  "We  are  greatly  distressed  to  find  no  more  of 
the  militia  of  the  State  joining  General  Washington  at  this  time  ;  for  God's 
Sake  what  shall  we  do  ;  is  the  cause  deserted  by  our  State,  and  shall  a  few 
Brave  men  offer  their  Lives  as  a  Sacrifice  against  treble  their  number  with- 
out assistance  ?  For  my  own  part,  I  came  cheerfully  out,  not  doubting  we 
should  be  joined  by  a  number  sufficient  to  drive  our  Enemy  back  with 
Shame,  Despair,  and  Loss.  ...  1  am  far  from  thinking  our  cause 
desperate.     If  our  people  would  but  turn  out.  Jf  J  thought  I 

could  be  of  any  service  I  would  leave  my  Battalion  and  come  down  for  a 
little  while  :  for  God's  sake  exert  yourselves." 

Bayard  saw  active  service  in  the  battles  of  Brandywine,  Germantown, 
and  Princeton.  His  battalion  was  a  part  of  the  force  led  by  Washington 
in  person  at  Princeton,  to  resist  the  attack  on  General  Mercer's  demoral- 
ized brigade.  In  this  battle  Major  Bradford,  of  Bayard's  battalion,  was 
severely  wounded,  and  his  friend,  Mercer,  killed.  Washington  personally 
complimented  Colonel  Bayard  for  his  gallantry,  and  on  the  good  conduct 
of  Cadwalader's  command,  where  all  the  field  officers  acquitted  themselves 
admirably,  and  where  their  example  was  followed  by  the  inferior  officers 
and  privates. 

Adam  Hubley  wrote  from  Bordentown,  January  4,  1777  :  "The  enemy 
had  a  vast  number  killed  at  Princeton.  Our  Philadelphia  Associators  be- 
haved like  brave  soldiers  on  this  occasion.  They  fought  the  enemy  lor 
some  considerable  time,  regular,  in  platoon  fires,  and  repulsed  them  twice. 
.  .  .  A  number  of  the  Associators  fell."  Another  authority  states  that 
"  they  behaved  like  heroes,  and  pressed  the  British  so  close  that  they  were 
at  bayonets'  points." 

Bayard's  love  of  country  is  well  illustrated  by  two  incidents  that  oc- 
curred at  the  London  Coffee  House,*  which  was  standing  till  August,  1883. 

Captain,  General  E.  B'urd  Grubb,  who  was  present  with  his  soldierly  command  at  the  celebration  of  the 
completion  of  the  Washington  Monument,  Saturday,  February  21,  1885.  The  Associators  were  first  or- 
ganized as  a  regiment  of  eleven  companies  in  1747,  with  Abram  Taylor  as  Colonel,  Thomas  Lawrence, 
Lieutenant-Colon'.-!,  and  Samuel  McCall,  Major. 

*  It  was  built  about  the  year  1702,  established  as  an  "Exchange"  in  1754,  and  was  a  place  ot  great  im- 
portance, commercially,  politically,  and  socially,  in  old  Philadelphia. 


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5  8  Colo  n  el  J  oh  n  Bayard  (1738-1807)  [April, 

the  oldest  building  in  Philadelphia,  with  the  single  exception  of  the  resi- 
dence of  Letitia  Perm,  and  one  which  has  played  an  important  part  in  the 
military  and  civil  history  of  Pennsylvania.  William  Allen,  Jr.,  son  of  the 
ICing's  Chief-Justice  of  Pennsylvania,  who  afterward  commanded  Allen's 
Loyal  Legion,  meeting  Colonel  Bayard  at  the  Coffee  House,  said  to  him, 
"I  will  shed  my  blood  in  opposition  to  Independence."  "And  1,"  answered 
the  sturdy  patriot,  "will  fight  for  it."*  To  another  bitter  Loyalist  Bayard 
said,  "I  have  a  wife  and  a  do/en  children  to  provide  for,  but  I  will  spend 
my  last  shilling  to  secure  my  country's  liberties,  and  I  will  spend  my  life 
also,  if  necessary." 

On  March  13,  1777,  Bayard  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  War,  and  four  days  later  he  was  elected  speaker  of  the  House  of 
Assembly.  To  this  position  he  was  reelected  in  the  following  year.  In 
December,  1777,  we  find  Colonel  Bayard,  in  company  with  James  Young, 
visiting  Washington's  camp  to  report  on  the  condition  of  the  Penn 
sylvania  troops,  and  their  letters  to  President  Wharton  give  a  distressing 
account  of  the  army  previous  to  the  occupation  of  Valley  Forge. \  In 
1780  Bayard  was  one  of  a  committee  to  report  the  causes  of  the  falling  off 
of  the  revenues  of  the  State,  and  in  the  following  year  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Supreme  Executive  Council.  In  1  7S5  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Continental  Congress,  whose  meetings  were  then  held  in  New  York 
City.  His  associates  in  that  body  included,  among  others,  his  friends, 
General  St.  Clair  and  Judge  Wilson,  of  Pennsylvania;  James  Monroe, 
General  Henry  Lee,  and  Colonel  Grayson,  of  Virginia  ;  Gerry  and  Rufus 
King,  of  Massachusetts;  Ellery,  of  Rhode  Island,  and  Pinckney,  of  South 
Carolina. 

Before  the  capture  of  Philadelphia  by  the  British,  in  September,  r777, 
Colonel  Bayard  dispensed  a  generous  hospitality  to  the  many  distinguished 
characters,  civil  and  military,  whose  duties  called  them  to  that  city.  John 
Adams,  after  dining  with  him,  writes,  "I  shall  be  killed  with  kindness  in 
this  place.  We  go  to  Congress  at  nine,  and  there  we  stay,  most  earnestly 
engaged  in  debates  upon  the  most  abstruse  mysteries  of  state,  until  three 
in  the  afternoon  ;  then  we  adjourn,  and  go  to  dine  with  some  of  the  nobles 
of  Pennsylvania  at  four  o'clock,  and  feast  upon  ten  thousand  delicacies, 
and  sit  drinking  Madeira,  claret,  and  Burgundy,  till  six  or  seven,  and  then 
go  home  fatigued  to  death  with  business,  company,  and  care."  In  another 
letter  to  Mrs.  Adams  he  says,  "This  will  go  by  Colonel  Bayard,  a  gentle- 
man of  the  Presbyterian  persuasion  in  this  city,  of  excellent  character,  to 
whom  I  am  indebted  for  a  great  many  civilities."  Others  who  shared 
Bayard's  hospitality  were  Hancock,  the  President  of  the  Congress,  who  had 
entertained  him  in  Boston  ;  Samuel  Adams,  who  shared  with  Hancock  the 

*  "  September  4th,  1776.  Yesterday  high  words  passed  at  the  Coffee  House  :  William  Allen,  Jr.,  de- 
claring that  he  would  shed  his  blood  in  opposition  to  Independency,  and  Colonel  John  Bayard  in  the  sup- 
port of  Independency.  Allen's  behaviour  was  such  that  William  Bradford  immediately  complained  to 
Samuel  Morris.  Jr.,  as  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  of  the  abuse  offered  by  Allen  to  the  Public." 
Christopher  Marshall's  Diary  of  Events  in  1774-1781.  [The  Bradford  mentioned  above  "entered  into 
active  service  in  July,  1770.  as  Major  of  the  Second  Battalion  oi  the  Pennsylvania  Militia,  of  which  the  ex- 
cellent John  Bayard  was  Colonel  ;  General  John  Cadwalader  commanding  the  brigade.  His  son,  nineteen 
years  afterwards  the  accomplished  Attorney-General  of  the  United  States  under  Washington,  was  in  the 
same  brigade,  though  not  in  the  same  regiment  with  him."  Wallace's  Life  of  Bradford.  Philadelphia,  1084, 
pp.  121.] 

t  Writing  December  4th,  Bayard  says:  "There  are  above  one-third  that  have  neither  breeches,  shoes, 
stockings,  or  blankets,  and  who,  by  that  means,  are  rendered  unable  to  do  duty,  or  indeed  to  keep  the  held. 
It  is  truly  distressing  to  see  these  p oor  naked  fellows  encamped  on  bleak  hills  ;  and  yet,  when  any  prospect 
of  an  action  with  trie  enemy  offers,  these  brave  men  appear  full  of  spirit  and  eager  for  engaging."  In  view 
of  an  army  composed  of  such  men,  well  might  Patrick  Henry  prophetically  exclaim,  "We  are  invincible  by 
any  force  which  our  enemy  can  send  against  us." 


iS85-]  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  eg 

honor  of  being  excepted  from  a  royal  pardon  ;  Elbrid.ce  Gerry,  afterward 
Vice-President  of  the  United  States;  General  Lord  Stirling;  Lafayette, 
who  enjoyed  his  host's  good  French — a  somewhat  rare  American  accom- 
plishment a  hundred  and  more  years  ago;  Livingston,  of  Livingston's 
Manor  on  the  Hudson  ;  and  the  New  Jersey  delegation,  consisting  of 
Richard  Stockton,  Hopkinson,  the  wit  and  poet,  and  Witherspoon,  the 
President  of  Princeton  College.  Another  frequent  guest  at  his  residence 
in  Arch  Street,  between  First  and  Second,  was  James  Wilson,  one  of  the 
signers  of  the  Declaration,  and,  like  Dr.  Witherspoon,  a  native  of  Scotland  ; 
and  Hayward  and  Middleton,  of  South  Carolina,  who,  similarly  to  John 
Bayard  and  Robert  Morris,  the  financier  of  the  Revolution,  sacrificed  his 
fortune  in  the  cause  of  his  country.* 

From  an  unfinished  autobiography  written  a  few  years  before  her  death 
by  Colonel  Bayard's  eldest  daughter,  we  obtain  some  original  information 
concerning  her  father  and  his  family.  Afrs.  Kirkpatrick  writes:  "About 
this  time  (the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  War),  our  public  affairs  as- 
sumed an  alarming  appearance.  War  was  approaching  witli  all  its  terrors. 
My  father  engaged  in  the  cause  of  his  country  with  all  the  ardor  of  patriot- 
ism. He  was  the  Colonel  of  a  battalion  of  the  city,  but  did  not  enter 
the  United  States  Army.  He  afterward  was  a  member  of  the  Assembly. 
This  was  a  conspicuous  station  and  exposed  him  to  the  ill-will  of  the 
British.  The  duties  ot  his  oince  drew  him  from  home  and  caused  ad- 
ditional cares  to  my  mother.  Though  a  delicate  woman  and  placed  in 
trying  circumstances,  she  possessed  firmness  of  mind,  and  on  perilous  oc- 
casions showed  much  energy  and  intrepidity. 

"  My  father  purchased  a  farm  in  what  was  considered  a  very  safe  part  of 
the  country.  It  was  eighteen  miles  from  the  city,  on  the  Schuylkill.  This 
he  designed  as  a  retreat  for  his  family  in  case  the  enemy  should  attack 
Philadelphia. 

"The  first  alarm  that  I  remember  was  when  it  was  reported  that  Roe- 
buck was  in  the  Delaware  and  would  soon  make  an  attack.  I  recollect 
the  commotion  in  the  house,  boxes  piled  up  in  the  parlor,  furniture  pack- 
ing, and  the  confusion  and  the  alarm  through  the  house.  The  Roebuck  ! 
the  Roebuck  !  t  resounded  ;  but  what  this  was,  I  had  no  idea.  Many  of 
the  family  ran  up-stairs  to  look  out  of  the  trap-door  in  the  roof.  I  fol- 
lowed on  but  saw  nothing  ;  neither,  indeed,  was  the  vessel  in  sight  ;  but 
the  idea  of  a  man-of-war  approaching  so  near,  filled  all  the  town  with  con- 
sternation. 

"The  family  was  removed  to  Plymouth,  which  from  that  time  became 
our  residence  for  several  successive  years.  The  house  was  very  plain  and 
stood  on  the  road-side,  but  the  views  round  it  were  beautiful  and  became 
the  favorite  walk.  There  was  a  fine  open  wood,  quite  clear  of  under- 
brush, through  which  the  path.  lay.  Here  the  children  delighted  to  ramble  ; 
the  high  banks  of  the  river  were  often  resorted  to  for  the  beautiful  views 
they  afforded  of  the  opposite  side,  where  stood  a  small  stone  church 
called  the  Swede's  Church,  and  which  gave  the  name  to  the  ford — the 
Swede's  Ford  ;  afterwards  more  known  by  being  the  passage  of  a  part  of 
the  British  party. 

*  Apropos  of  dinner  parties,  an  invitation  to  dine  with  Genera!  and  Mrs.  "Washington  during  his  presi- 
dency in  1750,  was  found  behind  a  mantel  piece  when  Colonel  Bayard's  residence  in  New  Brunswick  was 
undergoing  repairs,  some  sixty  years  after  tint  date.  .  There  was  also  found  at  the  same  time  a  notice  of  a 
meeting  of  the  Philosophical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  of  which  Bayard  was  elected  a  member  in  17S7. 

t  The  Roebuck   was  an  English  frigate  of  44    guns,    commanded   by   Captain    Hammond.      Sor.ie  of  her 
cannon  balis  hred  at  Christiana  during  May,  1776,  are  to  be  seen  in  the  Historical  Society  of  Delaware. 


• 


(5o  Colonel  John  Bayard  (1738-1S07)  [April, 

"  Owing  to  the  progress  of  the  war.  and  New  Jersey  being  so  much  the 
seat  of  hostile  operations,  the  College  of  Princeton  was  vacated.  My 
brother  James,  among  the  others,  had  to  return  home.  He  procured  a 
horse,  and  took  what  was  supposed  to  be  the  safest  road  to  avoid  the 
enemy.  Unfortunately,  he  fell  in  with  a  party  of  marauders  who  seized 
him  and  inquired  his  name.  When  he  told  them,  they  immediately  pro- 
nounced him  a  rebel  and  the  son  of  a  rebel  ;  though,  from  his  youthful 
appearance,  it  was  evident  he  had  never  borne  arms.  But  this  availed 
nothing.  They  pinioned  his  arms  and  brought  him  to  Philadelphia  and 
committed  him  to  prison,  where  a  fearful  doom  awaited  him.  As  soon  as 
the  sad  news  was  brought  to  Plymouth,  my  mother  determined  to  go  im- 
mediately to  the  city.  My  father  was  at  Lancaster,  where  the  Assembly 
was  sitting,  and  she  had  no  one  to  assist  her  ;  but  her  maternal  love  gave 
her  energy.  I  do  not  remember  hearing  through  whose  influence  she  ob- 
tained a  safe  conduct,  but  she  hastened  forward  and  made  application  to 
the  commanding  officer.  For  some  days  she  suffered  a  most  anxious 
suspense.  She  met  unlooked-for  kindness  from  a  Quaker  lady — Grace 
Hastings — which  she  mentioned  with  gratitude.  Jt  was  a  Christian  act 
for  a  Tory  to  aid  a  Whig  in  those  troublesome  times.  Application  was 
made  to  our  Commander-in-Chief,  and  arrangements  were  made  for  the 
rej^^  of"  h^r  beloved  son.  and  she  returned  home  to  her  interesting 
charge.  It  was  a  tedious  space  till  he  was  released.  His  return  occasioned 
a  gleam  of  joy  in  the  midst  of  those  gloomy  days.  Several  years  after- 
wards he  pointed  out  to  me  the  place  where  he  stood  (it  was  a  gate  by  the 
road  side)  waiting  to  hear  his  doom,  a  halter  was  around  his  neck,  and  the 
intelligence  had  not  come  whether  life  or  death  was  the  sentence.  The 
messenger  appeared  in  the  distance.  The  moment  was  awful.  But  in  a 
few  minutes  lie  was  set  at  liberty,*  and  joyfully  set  off  for  his  home. 

u  On  another  occasion,  my  mother  was  placed  in  very  trying  and  agi- 
tating circumstances.  My  father  was  absent,  attending  to  his  official 
duties  at  Lancaster,  where  the  Assembly  met  as  a  place  of  safety  removed 
from  the  seat  of  war,  and  she  had  a  large  family  to  provide  for.  A  division 
of  the  British  army  was  moving  to  Philadelphia  by  way  of  the  Swede's 
ForrJ  ;  the  road  to  be  passed  was  the  one  on  which  our  house  stood. 
This  alarm  caused  great  consternation,  as  such  a  course  was  not  expected 
and  no  preparation  was  made  for  escape.  An  invitation  was  sent  from  a 
friend  who  lived  at  Potts  Grove  for  her  to  bring  her  family  there.  Mr. 
Andrew  Caldwell  was  tiie  name  of  this  kind  friend,  of  whom  I  retain  a 
grateful  recollection.  My  mother  engaged  a  few  wagons  to  carry  the  fur- 
niture to  places  of  safety,  but  could  not,  on  such  short  notice,  dispose  of 
all  the  family  stores.  They  had  to  be  left  for  the  plunder  of  the  soldiery. 
She  took  her  small  children  with  her,  and  mourn  fully  departed  from  her 
home,  not  knowing  what  would  befall  her  asylum.  As  she  went  in  the 
morning,  in  the  evening  the  enemy  arrived  and  took  possession  of  the  house 
which  was  so  commodiously  situated.  They  found  much  that  was  gratify- 
ing, and  some  things  xvhich  proved  amusing  in  the  way  of  destruction. 
The  library  was  a  thing  which  could  do  them  no  good  ;  they  found  many 
religious  books,  and  concluded  they  belonged  to  some  Presbyterian  parson, 
and,  of  course,  a  rebel.  They  made  a  pile  of  them  and  amused  themselves 
in  shooting  at  them    in  all  directions,  the   fragments  and    some   few  vol - 

*  Hi?  release  on  die  ground  of  bein^  a  non-combatant  returning  from  college,  was  demanded  in  a  letter  to 
Sir  William  Howe,  which  appears  in  the  correspondence  of  Washington.  Vide  Sparks'  Life,  vol.  v.,  pp.  219. 


1885.]  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  6 1 

umes  remaining  scattered  over  the  court-yard.  Another  thing  excited  their 
ire.  It  was  the  likenesses  of  our  distinguished  men.  They  tore  them 
down  and  to  increase  their  fury,  saw  behind  them,  with  their  faces  to  the 
wall,  some  of  the  royal  family,  and,  of  course,  the  American  heroes  had  to 
share  the  fate  of  the  unfortunate  books.  The  wine  was  a  great  prize,  and 
proved  the  means  of  saving  the  house  which  was  doomed  to  destruction. 
But  the  officer,  in  gratitude  for  this  unlooked-for  luxury,  instead  of 
ordering  the  house  to  be  burnt,  wrote  a  very  polite  note  to  my  father, 
thanking  him  for  his  entertainment. 

"  It  was  reported  that  the  house  was  burnt  and  everything  destroyed. 
This  gave  occasion  to  a  friend — William  Bell — to  give  evidence  of  his 
great  affection  and  gratitude  to  my  father.  As  soon  as  he  heard  this 
sad  report,  he  made  an  otter  to  divide  his  property  and  give  half  of  all 
he  possessed  to  his  friend,  saying,  'I  owe  all  I  have  to  your  kindness, 
for  you  took  me  into  your  employ  when  I  had  nothing.'  Such  noble 
conduct  is  worthy  of  lasting  remembrance.  The  sacrifice,  happily,  was 
not  requisite.  The  house  remained  and  the  losses  were  not  so  great  but 
that  they  might  soon  be  retrieved. 

"A  more  retired  residence  was  procured  for  the  winter,  -which  was  ren- 
dered very  agreeable  by  the  near  neighbourhood  of  President  Reed's 
famil}--.  There  Had  1nnrT  been  a  very  intimate  association  between  the  two 
families,  which  continued  through  life.  My  father  said,,  next  to  his  brother, 
Joseph  Reed  was  his  dearest  friend.  The  children  participated  in  this 
friendly  intercourse,  and  memory  retains  some  of  the  pleasures  of  that 
early  period  when  we  played  together. 

"  The  succeeding  summer,  1  think,  the  family  was  removed  for  greater 
safety  to  the  Manor  House  in  Man  land.  There  were  some  of  the  ancient 
slaves  still  remaining  in.  these  quarters,  as  it  was  termed,  and  my  father 
took  the  kindest  care  of  them  in  their  old  age.  I  have  some  remem- 
brance of  them.  The  oldest  man  among  them  still  went  to  the  tobacco- 
field,  and,  sitting  on  a  three-legged  stool,  would  diligently  look  for  the 
worms  and  destroy  them.  He  called  my  father  by  the  accustomed  name 
of  Johnny.  '  Massa  Johnny,  oh,  I  carried  him  many  a  day  in  my  arms.' 
Old  Sarah  was  his  wife.  All  I  recollect  of  her  was  a  large  wen  oft  her 
arm,  so  that  she  could  do  little  to  help  herself.  But  she  was  kindly  cared 
for  till  her  removal  from  earthly  bondage. 

"  The  succeeding  winter  was  passed  in  Philadelphia.  I  have  scarcely 
any  recollection  of  that  period.  But  in  the  spring  we  all  returned  to 
Plymouth,  which  was  now  repaired  and  furnished  anew.  My  father  en- 
gaged a  teacher  and  had  a  little  cottage  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
road  fitted  for  a  school-room.  He  admitted  a  few  of  the  neighbors  to 
enjoy  this  privilege  with  his  family.  It  was  a  great  matter  in  those  days 
of  desolation  to  have  such  a  resource.  It  was  a  subject  of  great  delight 
to  me  to  have  a  little  friend  with  me,  and  many  a  pleasant  ramble  we  had 
together  through  the  woods  and  down  on  the  banks  of  the  beautiful 
Schuylkill.  Her  father  was  a  physician  and  lived  about  a  mile  off;  but, 
accompanied  by  a  brother,  she  used  to  attend  punctually.  I  had  a 
brother  also,  and  it  was  our  practice  to  go.  generally  half-way  home  with 
them  to  a  little  brook  which  crossed  the  road.  On  a  small  knoll  was  a 
large  hawthorn  bush  under  which  we  often  sat  down  to  rest  or  amuse 
ourselves.  The  brook  was  so  shallow  r.hat  it  was  safely  waded,  or  else 
we  stepped  along  the  rails  of  the  fences.  The  boys  generally  performed  the 


(52  Colonel  John  Bayard  (1738-1807)  [April, 

first  method  and  we  the  latter.  Many  years  afterward,  when  I  revisited  the 
scenes,  all  the  features  of  the  place  were  altered.  A  line  broad  stone  bridge 
was  erected  over  this  little  brook — the  bank,  our  favorite  seat,  was  levelled 
down,  and  no  trace  remained  of  the  thorn  bush.  I  could  not  hail  the 
improvements  with  the  same  feeling  as  those  simple  objects,  impressed  on 
my  childhood's  memory.  I  was  often  allowed  to  spend  days  with  my  friend 
Rachel  Shannon,  and  the  places  of  our  resort  are  still  fresh  in  my  recollec- 
tion. Her  father,  Dr.  Shannon,  had  a  mill  on  the  Schuylkill,  which  in  our 
holiday  time  we  often  visited.  About  the  middle  of  the  stream,  which 
spread  out  widely  just  at  this  place,  was  a  small  island  studded  with  line, 
spreading  trees.  To  gain  that  island  as  a  play-ground,  was  the  object 
of  our  earnest  desire.  There  was  a  small  boat  belonging  to  the  mill,  and 
one  day  we  persuaded  the  mill-boy  to  paddle  us  over.  The  current  was  too 
strong  for  our  little  lad,  and  instead  of  reaching  the  island,  as  enticing  as 
Calypso's,  we  were  carried  down  in  our  frail  bark  to  the  mill-race  !  Hap- 
pily, the  miller  was  near,  and  Hew  to  our  rescue,  or  in  a  few  moments  we 
should  have  been  crushed  under  the  water-wheel.  So  graciously  did 
Providence  preserve  us  from  the  effects  of  our  folly,  I  believe  this  adven- 
ture settled  our  minds  about  visiting  the  island. 

"With  this  friend,  1  kept  up  a  very  kind  intimacy.  I  attended  her  mar- 
riage as  bridesmaid,  die  nrst  Lime  I  sustained  that  office.  She  was  married 
to  a  son  of  General  St.  Clair.*  and  continued  to  live  with  her  parents.  I 
never  saw  her  but  once  after  our  removal  to  New  Jersey. 

"In  the  autumn  we  left  our  favorite  retreat,  and  went  to  pass  the  winter 
in  Philadelphia.  My  father  took  a  large  house  in  Water  Street,  not  far 
from  my  grandmother's.  At  that  time  this  street,  now  altogether  one  of 
business,  was  occupied  by  many  of  the  most  respectable  families,  and  Third 
Street  was  thought  to  be  quite^high  up.  The  growth  of  the  city  has  been 
very  great  since  those  early  days.  My  mother's  health  was  very  declining. 
Some  recollection  of  her  sick  room  still  abides,  and  has  been  ever  since  a 
painful  thought — a  gentle  reproof  that  I  preferred  sliding  on  the  ice  to  sit- 
ting by  my  sick  mamma  1     I  have  always  felt  it  as  the  sin  of  my  childhood. 

"J.  remember  also,  some  time  this  winter,  that  I  was  invited  to  a  tea-party 
at  President  Reed's,  and  great  preparations  were  made  about  my  dress. 
Goods  of  every  kind  were  scarce  and  high,  as  commerce  had  not  yet 
revived.  Therefore  a  dress  of  my  mother's  was  to  be  made  up  for  me.  It 
was  an  India  muslin,  which  was  an  article  rare  and  much  admired.  A 
pair  of  red  shoes  also  were  procured.  Our  coachman,  Lancaster,  one  of 
the  Maryland  servants,  carried  me  on  his  shoulder,  his  strong  arm  support- 
ing my  limbs.  I  felt  as  safe  there  as  if  seated  in  a  carriage.  This  was  the 
first  party  I  was  ever  at,  and  it  appeared  very  gay  and  beautiful  to  me, 
especially  seeing  the  young  ladies  dancing.  Miss  Patty,  the  eldest  daugh- 
ter, was  my  friend,  and  I  was  much  attached  to  her.  The  intimacy  with  this 
family  has  marked  every  period  of  my  life.  Our  parents  were  attached  by 
mutual  esteem,  and  friendship  descended  to  their  children.  Alas!  the  last 
link  is  broken  !  '  All  who  live  long  must  outlive  those  they  love  and 
honor.'  This  I  find  by  my  own  experience.  1  have  survived  all  my  early 
friends." 

In  the  year  17S0,  Colonel  Bayard  lost  his  beautiful  wife,  whose  portrait, 
as  well  as  his  own,  has  been  transmitted  to  posterity  by  Benjamin  West, 

*  General  Arthur  St.  Clair   (1734-1818)  married  at  Uoston,  May  14,  1760,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Balthazar 
Bayard  and  his  wife  Mary  Bowdoiu.     She  brought  her  hubband  ^14,000,  a  large  dower  for  those  days. 


18S5.]  otid  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  63 

and  Charles  Wilson  Peale.*  She  was  taken  from  him  April  13th,  in  the 
fortieth  year  of  her  cge.  Devoted  to  the  care  of  her  large  family  and  to 
her  sister's  children,  ever  happy  in  the  exercises  of  devotion  and  the  offices 
of  charity,  her  life  was  tranquil,  exemplary,  and  useful.  As  well  by  her  in- 
struction as  her  example,  Mrs.  Bayard 

"AllurM  to  brighter  worlds,  and  led  the  way." 

May  5,  17S1,  Colonel  Bayard  married  Mary,  widow  of  John  Hodgson,  of 
South  Carolina,  and  daughter  of  Mrs.  Mary  Grant, f  who  became  the  second 
wife  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Rodgers.  Mrs.  Bayard  died  suddenly  August  13, 
17S5,  and  like  her  predecessor  at  the  age  of  forty,  leaving  a  son  who  soon 
followed  his  mother  to  the  home  appointed  for  all  living.  Two  years  later 
Colonel  Bayard  married  Johannah  White,  a  sister  of  General  Anthony  W, 
White,  of  Xew  Brunswick,  who  survived  her  husband  for  a  period  of  twenty- 
seven  years,  and  in  17SS,  having  retired  from  active  business  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  having  been  compelled,  by  the  sacrifices  made  in  behalf  of 
his  country,  to  part  with  his  estate  at  Bohemia  Manor,  he  removed  to 
Xew  Brunswick.  Here  Colonel  Bayard  became  indenizened  and  built  a 
beautiful  house,  and  here  he  occupied  the  same  high  social  position  which 
he  had  held  in  Philadelphia.  At  dial  period  no  place  in  New  Jersey,  and 
few  in  the  country,  could  boast  of  a  more  distinguished  society  than  his 
adopted  home.  At  Colonel  Bayard's  house,  in  Albany  Street,  were  fre- 
quently entertained,  while  they  were  passing  and  repassing  between  Phila- 
delphia and  New  York,  many  of  the  great  leaders  of  that  era.  Washington, 
Wayne,  Koskiusko,+  and  other  illustrious  revolutionary  soldiers  were  wel- 
come guests,  as  was  Elias  Boudinot,§  one  of  the  presidents  of  the'Con- 
tinental  Congress;  Chief  Justice  Jay;  old  Dr.  Rodgers.  with  his  buzz-wig, 
and  well  polished  silver-buckled  shoes,  and  knee-breeches;  and  the  patroon 
of  that  period — the  Van  Rensselaer  of  Van  Rensselaers — who  came  in  his 
own  coach  and  four  from  his  Albany  .Manor  House.  At  Colonel  Bayard's 
board;  at  that  of  his  brothers  in-law,  Governor  Patterson,  of  the  United  States 

*  West's  noble  full-length  portraits,  painted  in  1759,  were  temporarily  deposited  by  one  of  Colonel  Bayard's 
sons  at  Joline's  Hotel,  Printer  n,  N.  J.,  in  the  year  1832.  When  called  for  they  could  not  be  found,  and 
have  r.ever  been  seen  since.  The  pictures  were  removed  from  their  frames  in  Philadelphia  and  forwarded 
on  wooden  rollers.  Peak's  fine  pictures,  three-quarters  length,  are  in  the  possession  of  Judge  A.  K.  Cogs- 
well, of  New  Brunswick,  a  great-grandson  of  John  Bayard.  A  copy  of  Peale's  portrait  of  Colonel  Bayard 
is  to  be  seen  in  the  collection  of  the  College  of  Xew  Jersey,  and  another  is  owned  by  Mrs.  Edwin  A.  Stevens, 
who  kindly  loaned  it  to  the  Society  rcasion  of  the  address  on  her  ancestor.     It  was  engraved  for  the 

Missionary  Magazine  and  E\angelical  Intelligencer,  in  the  third  volume  of  which  it  appeared  in  1807,  accom- 
panied by  an  extended  biography  ■■'•  bayard.  The  same  volume  also  contained  a  good  portrait  and  sketch 
of  his  father-in-law,  the  Rev.  l'r.  John  Rodgers. 

+  An  admirable  portrait  of  this  lady,  whose  family  name  was  Antrobus,  and  a  native  of  Manchester,  Eng- 
land, was  painted  by  Charles  Wilson  Peale.  It  was  in  the  possession  of  Mary  Rodgers  Uayard,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Francis  M.  Kip,  D.D.,  and  granddaughter  of  Colonel  Bayard,  who  died  at  New  Brighton.  S.  I.,  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1SS5. 

X  The  writer  has  in  bis  possession  a  curious  pen  and  ink  drawing  made  by  the  Polish  patriot  while  sojourn- 
ing in  New  Brunswick,  X.  J.,  signed  "Koskiusko,"  and  presented  by  him  to  Colonel  Bayard's  eldest 
daughter.  Another  most  interesting  memorial  of  the  hero  was  shown  to  the  writer  at  Moscow,  in  August, 
1883.  It  was  a  jine  painting,  representing  the  Emperor  Paul,  soon  after  his  coronation  in  1790,  giving  Kos- 
kiusko  his  freed'.—  ,  and  offering  him  his  sword,  which  latter  he  declined,  saying,  '"  I  have  no  need  of  a  sword. 
I  have  no  country  now  10  defend." 

§  He  arid  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Bradford,  widow  of  Washington's  second  attorney-general,  in  travelling  from 
Philadelphia  or  Burlington  to  New  Verb,  always  halted  at  Colonel  Bayard's,  and  after  his  death,  at  Chief 
Justice  Ksrkpatrick's.  Bayard's  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Cogswell,  in  a  private  journal  thus  alludes  to  their 
visits  at  her  father's:  '"Dr.  Boudin  a  and  Mrs.  Bra  Iford  usually  made  "a  progress'  string  and  fall,  and  they 
failed  not  to  st  p.  coming  and  going,  at  our  domicile.  Still  I  hear  the  rumble  of  the  old  coach  up  the  hill.  I 
see  the  gouty         g      I  scend.  then  madarne  f  :r  trunks  and  1      tes.   Then  the  finery  she  con- 

descended to  show  us.  Then  the  dinner  in  Mammy  Sally's  best  style.  Then  the  long  wearing  through  the 
day  of  cerem  the     reakfast,   the    farewell,  and    the  coach,  coachman,  footman,  ana  agreeable  visitors 

departed."  Mrs.  Bradford  survived  her  husband  fifty-eight  years,  and  died  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  November 
30,  1833- 


. 


64  Colonel  John  Bayard  (1 738-1807)  [April, 

Supreme  Court,  and  General  White,  of  the  United  States  Army;  at  the 
French  minister's  summer  residence  ;  at  Dr.  Moses  Scott's  ;  at  Chief  Jus- 
tice Kirkpatrick's;  at  Garnett's,  the  friend  and  correspondent  of  Akenside; 
at  Colonel  Neilson's;  at  the  Smiths  of  Ross  Hall,  and  at  many  others,  there 
were  in  those  hospitable  times  frequent  gatherings  at  dinner,  tea,  and  supper 
parties,  of  a  select  circle  of  choice  spirits,  arrayed  in  the  handsome  costume 
of"  those  days,  when  a  gentleman's  dress  differed  from  that  of  his  tailor  or 
servant*  Colonel  Bayard  was  bom  too  soon  to  relish  the  freedoms  of 
democracy,  and  there  hung  about  him,  as  about  most  of  his  class,  a  little  of 
the  chevaux  de  /rise  of  formality  and  stateliness  pertaining  to  his  time. 
He  was  like  his  friend  Hamilton,  a  high-toned  Federalist,  and  one  of  the 
class  of  gentry  who  looked  upon  themselves  less  as  the  representatives  of 
the  people  than  as  their  guardians  and  protectors,  and  who  endeavored  to 
preserve  what  they  deemed  to  be  necessary  distinctions  in  society.  Bay- 
ard's stateliness  of  manner  was,  however,  brushed  aside  in  the  presence  of  his 
family  and  intimate  friends.  In  his  gayer  moments,  when  his  benevolent 
countenance  was  brightened  with  its  half  playful,  half  pensive  smile,  he 
would  entertain  his  guests  with  touches  of  wit  and  humor  and  an  occa- 
sional anecdote.  Some  of  these  have  been  handed  down  to  us.  I  may 
perhaps  be  permitted  to  relate  several  of  his  stories. 

Colonel  Bayard  was  on  a  visit  to  the  President's  house  in  Princeton  on 
one  occasion,  when  a  most  amusing  passage  at-arms  occurred  between 
Doctors  Nesbit  and  Witherspoon — both  Scotchmen,  both  wits,  and  both 
Presidents— the  former  perhaps  more  lively  and  exuberant  ;  the  latter  more 
keen.  Doctor  Nesbit  had  intimated  beforehand  that  at  dinner  he  would 
turn  the  laugh  on  Witherspoon  ;  but  though  he  was  on  the  qui  vive,  no  op- 
portunity presented  itself.  Afterward  the  venerable  signer  of  the  Declara- 
tion stooped  to  light  his  pipe  at  the  fire,  and,  rising,  struck  his  head  against 
the  mantel.  "Oh!"  cried  he,  "how  my  head  rings."  "Do  you  know 
the  reason  ?"  quickly  asked  Nesbit.  "Why,  no,  sir."  "It's  because  it  is 
empty."  "  Why,  Dr.  Nesbit,  would  your  head  not  ring  if  you  were  to 
knock  it  in  that  way  ?  "  "  Oh  !  no,  sir."  "  And  do  you  know  the  reason  ?  " 
said  Witherspoon ;  "It's  because  it  is  cracked  !  " 

Another  was  of  the  painter,  Gilbert  Stuart,  and  Talleyrand,  with  both  of 
whom  Bayard  was  acquainted.  The  artist  was  as  remarkable  for  the  vigor 
of  his  language  as  for  the  strength  with  which  he  portrayed  with  his  pencil. 
While  pursuing  his  profession  in  New  York  his  studio  was  open,  on  stated 
days,  to  receive  visitors,  and  among  others  came  Talleyrand-Perigord. 
Stuart,  a  great  physiognomist,  fixing  his  keen  eyes  upon  him  attentively, 
remarked  to  a  friend,  with  violent  emphasis  and  gesture,  "If  that  man  is 
not  a  great  villain,  the  Almighty  does  not  write  a  legible  hand  !  " 

A  third  anecdote  was  told,  of  one  of  his  New  Jersey  clerical  friends, 
whose  negro,  called  Jack,  had  a  deadly  quarrel  with  a  neighbor's  slave, 
known  by  the  name  of  Cuffy.  Jack  fell  dangerously  ill,  and  his  master 
urged  him  to  forgive  the  said  Cuffy.  Jack  replied  that  Cuffy  was  a  "nris'ble 
mean  niggej,"  and  he  could  not  forgive  him.  "  I  tell  you,  Jack,"  said  the 
clergyman,  "  that  you  must  forgive  him,  or  God  will  not  forgive  you  your 
many  sins."     "Well,  massa,"  said  poor  Jack,  "  if  I  die,  I  forgive  him,  but 

*  Horace  Binney,  of  Philadelphia,  told  the  writer  that  he  remembered  Colonel  Bayard.  "  lie  was  above 
all  a  gentleman,"  he  said,  and  described  his  appearance  as  "of  medium  size,  with  hazel  eyes  and  light 
brunette  complexion,  with  a  half  playful,  half  melancholy  smile,  but  ever  kind  and  courteous  ;  who  always 
dressed  in  the  gentlemen's  costume  of  those  days  and  wore  his  hair  powdered,  as  represented  in  Peale's  por- 
trait,7' which  he  had  seen  and  pronounced  "an  admirable  likeness." 


1 885.]  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  65 

if  I  /ire,  Cuffy,  look  out  !  Sam  day  you  link  a  big  mule  kick  you,  an*  it 
wont  be  no  mule  nuther  !  " 

One  day,  related  Bayard,  while  Whitefield,  who  could  make  himself 
heard  by  thirty  thousand  people,  was. preaching  from  the  balcony  of  the 
Court  House,  in  Philadelphia,  he  cried  out  :  "  Father  Abraham,  who  have 
you  got  in  Heaven — any  Episcopalians  ?  "  "  No,''  "  Any  Presbyterians}" 
"  No."  "  Any  Baptists?  "  "  No."  "  Have  you  any  Methodists  ?  "  No." 
"Have  you  any  Congregatiofialists,  or  Independents  there?"  "No — no." 
"  Why,  who  have  you  there?"  "We  don't  know  those  names  here  ;  all 
that  are  Christians,  believers  in  Christ  ;  men  who  have  overcome  by  the 
blood  of  the  lamb  and  the  word  of  His  testimony  i  ';  "  Oh,  is  that  the  case  ? 
Then  God  help  me,— God  help  us  all  to  forget  party  names,  and  to  become 
Christians  in  deed  and  in  truth." 

The  last  but  one  of  Colonel  Bayard's  anecdotes  which  I  will  introduce 
here,  as  related  by  a  granddaughter,  was  of  one  of  his  son-in-law's  Scottish 
ancestors,  Sir  Thomas  Kirkpatriek,  of  Closeburn  Castle,*  who,  on  meeting 
for  the  first  time  with  the  Duchess  of  Queensbury,  of  Drumlanrig  Castle, 
also  in  Dumfriesshire,  was  greatly  irritated  by  her  patronizing  airs — her 
family  being  of  recent  origin,  while  his  was  among  the  most  ancient  in 
Scotland,  dating  back  to  the  ninth  century.  The  patience  of  the  proud  old 
patrician  Baronet  was  at  length  exhausted  by  the  insufferable  airs  of  the 
parvenu  Duchess,  and  he  turned  on  her  saying,  "Madame,  Closeburn  was 
in  ruins  before  the  first  stone  of  Drumlanrig  was  laid  !  " 

Among  Colonel  Bayard's  many  revolutionary  anecdotes  was  one  of  his 
friend,  General  Muhlenburg — an  old  time  incident  and  one  of  the  most 
thrilling  of  the  war.  What  was  said  of  the  old  ballad  of  Chevy  Chase  by 
Sir  Philip  Sidney,  was  true  of  Bayard's  story.  It  stirred  up  the  heart  blood 
like  the  sound  of  a  trumpet.  .Here  it  is  :  When  the  struggle  began  Muhlen- 
burg was  the  rector  of  a  parish  in  Virginia.  On  a  Sunday  he  administered 
the  Communion  of  the  Lord's  Supper  to  his  congregation,  stating  that  in 
the  afternoon  he  would  preach  a  sermon  on  the  duties  men  owe  to  their 
country.  At  the  appointed  hour  the  church  was  crowded  with  anxious 
listeners.  The  discourse  was  founded  upon  the  text  from  Solomon,  "There 
is  a  time  for  every  purpose  and  for  every  work."  The  sermon  breathed 
with  patriotic  ardor  :  every  sentence  and  intonation  exhibited  the  speaker's 
deep  earnestness  in  what  he  was  saying.  Pausing  a  moment  at  the  close  of 
his  discourse,  he  repeated  the  words  of  his  text,  and  then  in  tones  of  thunder 
exclaimed,  "  The  tune  to  preach  is  past :  The  time  to  fight  has  comic  !  " 
and  suiting  the  action  to  the  words,  he  threw  from  his  shoulders  the  epis- 
copal robes,  and  stood  before  his  excited  congregation  arrayed  in  military 
uniform.  Drumming  for  recruits  was  commenced  on  the  spot.  Muhlen- 
burg drew  from  his  pocket  a  colonel's  commission  from  the  Continental 
Congress,  and  it  is  said  that  almost  every  man  of  suitable  age  enlisted 
forthwith.  Nearly  three  hundred  men  were  enrolled  and  immediately 
organized  into  the  Eighth  Virginia,  or  German  regiment,  of  which  Muhlen- 
burg was  the  Colonel. 

Colonel  Bayard  was,  in  1790,  elected  Mayor  of  New  Brunswick,  and 
the  people  further  showed  their  appreciation  of  his  character  by  naming  in 
his  honor  one  of  their  thoroughfares,  Bayard  Street.  A  few  years  later  he 
was  appointed  Presiding  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Somerset 

_    *  Closeburn  and  Glamis  Castles  are  the  two  oldest  in   Scotland,  both  having  been  built  for  more  than 
eight  hundred  years. 


56  Colonel  John  Bayard  (17 38-1 80 7)  [April, 

County.  He  was  elected  a  trustee  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey  in  1778, 
and  continued  to  act  as  such  for  thirty  years,  rarely  omitting  to  attend  the 
annual  meetings.  At  the  commencement  exercises  of  1783,  Colonel 
Bayard  sat  on  the  stage  by  the  side  of  Washington,  who  in  that  year 
honored  the  occasion  Jby  his  presence.*  For  nearly  two  score  years  he 
regularly  attended,  as  a  delegate,  the  meetings  of  the  General  Presbyterian 
Church.  Dr.  Alexander  (1772- 1851),  in  describing  the  great  men  in  the 
Assembly  of  1 7 9 1 ,  says:  "  Colonel  Bayard  was  there  and  took  an  active 
part  in  business,  receiving  much  deference,  as  he  had  occupied  high  civil 
offices."  f  Thirteen  years  later,  writing  from  Philadelphia  to  his  eldest 
daughter,  then  in  Washington,  Colonel  Bayard  says:  "The  General  As- 
sembly will,  I  expect,  rise  on  Tuesday  or  Wednesday  of  next  week,  when  1 
shall  gladly  return  home.  My  time  is  so  much  occupied  by  attendance  on 
the  Assembly  that  I  have  as  yet  seen  but  little  of  our  relatives  here."  J 

The  present  capital  of  Passaic  County,  New  Jersey,  was  founded  in 
1791,  and  named  in  honor  of  Bayard's  brother-in-law,  Judge  Paterson,  by 
Alexander  Hamilton  and  John  Bayard,  and  an  incorporated  company 
formed  with  a  capital  of  $1,000,000,  the  object  of  which  was  to  manufacture 
cotton  cloth.  The  company  was  organized  at  New  Brunswick  and  was 
known  as  "  The  Society  for  Establishing  Useful  Manufactures."  Among 
pQloie]  Bayard's  associates  were  William  Duer,  General  Philip  Schuyler, 
Elias  Boudinot,  Archibald  Mercer,  Colonel  John  Neilson,  and  Alexander 
Hamilton.  The  movement  was,  however,  found  to  be  premature,  and  was 
abandoned  in  1796.  When  it  began  in  1791,  there  were  ten  dwellings  and 
a  small  church  ;  to-day  Paterson  is  a  busy  city  of  sixty  thousand  inhabit- 
ants. Nearly  one-half  of  that  number  are  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
silk,  so  that  it  may  be  properly  called  the  Lyons  of  America. 

In  1803,  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Bayard  spent  a  week  with  General  Van 
Rensselear  §  at  Albany,  being  their  last  visit  to  the  Manor  House.  During 
their  sojourn  the  late  Edward  Ellice,  known  as  the  first  Commoner  of 
England,  who  was  for  more  than  half  a  century  a  member  of  Parliament, 
arrived  in  Albany  in  company  with  John  Jacob  Astor.  The  Patroon  enter- 
tained them  at  dinner,  inviting  Governor  George  Clinton,  Generals  Schuy- 
ler and  Gansevoort,  Chancellor  Lansing,  and  other  distinguished  citizens 
to  meet  them.  The  guests,  when  summoned  to  dinner,  in  passing  through 
the  broad  hall  to  the  dining-room,  found  the  household  servants  arranged 
on  either  side  of  the  hall,  who,  following  the  guests,  took  their  places  be- 
hind their  chairs,  each  gentleman  having  a  sable  attendant.  Colonel 
Bayard  described  the  entertainment  as  one  of  the  most  enjoyable,  and  by 
far  the  finest  that  he  had  ever  attended,  even  in  the  hospitable  and  historic 
Manor  House  now,  alas,  no  longer  occupied  by  the  Van  Rensselaer  family. 

Near  the  close  of  1806,  Colonel  Bayard's  health  gradually  declined,  and 

*  On  his  first  visit  as  President  of  the  United  States  to  Mount  Vernon,  there,  to  cast  off  the  cares  of 
public  life  and  to  enjoy  the  pleasures  of  the  country  during  the  recess  of  Congress  in  the  summer  of  1700, 
Washington  halted  at  New  Brunswick  to  dine  with  his  old  comrade,  Colonel  Bayard.  Mrs.  Boyd,  the  last 
survivor  of  his  children,  but  a  few  years  before  her  death  in  1869,  visited  the  house  still  standing  in  Albany 
Street,  and  pointed  out  the  room  where,  on  her  return  from  school  with  her  sister,  she  saw  the  General  and 
her  father  pledging  each  other's  health  from  the  contents  of  a  handsome  punch-bowl,  in  which  the  other 
gentlemen  present  joined,  and  where  she  was  spoken  to  by  Washington  in  a  kindly  manner,  appropriate 
for  a  schoolgirl  of  eleven  summers.  The  large  punch-bowl  is  in  the  possession  of  Bayard's  great-grand- 
daughter, Mrs.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson,  of  New  York. 

t  Life  of  Archibald  Alexander,  D.D.,  by  his  son,  7>r.  J.  W.  Alexander.     New  York,  1854,  pp.  56. 

%  MS.  letter  to  Mrs.  Kirkpatrick,  dated  Philadelphia,  May  22,  1804. 

I  His  second  wife,  Miss  Cornelia  Patterson,  was  the  daughter  of  Governor  Patterson  and  the  niece  of 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  Bayard.  The  Patroon's  eidest  son's  wife  was  Harriet  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  William 
Bayard,  of  New  York  City,  whose  wife,  a  great  beauty,  was  painted  by  Gilbert  Stuart.  She  died  at  the 
Manor  House,  January  17,  1S54,  in  die  ninety- second  year  of  her  age. 


1 885.]  and  the  Bayard  Family  of  America.  (yj 

daring  his  last  illness  he  often  spoke  of  his  brother.  Awakening  from  sleep 
one  night,  he  said  :  "  My  dear  brother,  I  shall^soon  be  with  you,"  and  to 
his  wife  and  children  he  remarked,  "  Death  has  no  tenors  for  me."  As  he 
approached  nearer  the  grave  he  said,  while  sitting  up  supported  by  two 
daughters:  "I  shall  soon  be  at  rest.  I  shall  soon  be  with  my  God.  O 
glorious  hope  !  How  precious  are  the  promises  of  the  Gospel !  It  is  the 
support  of  my  soul  in  my  last  moments."  He  could  say  no  more,  but  his 
looks  and  arms  directed  toward  heaven  expressed  everything,  and  the  last 
whispered  words  which  escaped  from  his  dying  lips  were,  "  Lord  Jesus  !  " 
On  January  7,  1S07,  the  Christian  patriot  passed  peacefully  away,  in  the 
perfect  possession  of  all  his  mentai  faculties  : 

"  lie  gave  his  honors  to  the  world  again, 

His  blessed  past  to  heaven,  and  slept  in  peace."  * 

Three  days  later  he  was  laid  in  the  burial-ground  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  of  which  he  was  for  sixteen  years  a  trustee  and  ruling  elder,  and 
where  many  of  his  kindred  now  sleep  by  his  side  under  the  shade  of  a 
graceful  cypress  planted  by  his  son-in-law,  Chief-Justice  Kirkpatrick,  who 
wrote  the  following  truthful  inscription,  still  to  be  seen  on  his  well-pre- 
served monument  : 

The  tomb  of 

John  "Rayapd, 

Formerly  a  citizen  of  Philadelphia, 

Lately  of  this  city. 

Benevolent,  Liberal,  Patriotic 

He  was  chosen  by  his  Country  to  fill  her  first  offices, 

His  integrity  and  zeal  justified  the  choice. 

Generous  in  his  temper,  sincere  in  his  friendship, 

Eminent  for  every  social  virtue, 

He  possessed  the  esteem  of  all  who  knew  him. 

Kind,  gentle,  affectionate, 

As  a  Husband  and  Father. 

He  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  love  of  a  numerous 

Family,  who  erect  this  monument  to  his 

Revered  Memory. 

Devoted  to  the  religion  of  Christ, 

He  was  long  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Church  ; 

An  ardent  friend  of  youth, 

He  zealously  promoted  the  interests  of  Learning. 

Works  of  Piety,  of  Charity,  and  Benevolence 

Were  his  delight  and  daily  employment. 

But  his  hope  was  in 

Jesus. 

Full  of  this  hope, 

He  departed  hence  in  triumph, 

On  the  7th  day  of  January  1S07, 

In  the  69th  year  of  his  age. 

*  "The  last  letter  received  and  read  by  Colonel  Bayard,  the  day  before  his  death,  was  the  following,  written 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Tennent,  then  residing  in  Montgomery  County,  Pa.,  some  ten  miles  north  of  Philadelphia  : 

Abington,  January  5,  1807.     • 

My  Dear  Friend  and  Brother  :  We  are  distressed  to  hear  of  your  declining  health  and  that  your  much 
longer  continuance  here  is  a  matter  of  anxious  uncertainty  to  your  many  friends.  The  measure  of  our  days 
is  with  the  Lord,  and  beyond  the  appointed  time  we  cannot  continue.  I  trust  that  the  Lord  has  given  you 
such  views. of  the  Celestial  Glory  that  you  will  be  willing  to  obey  his  call  whenever  it  shall  be  given.  And 
may  you,  my  dear  friend,  in  your  views  of  futurity  be  not  only  willing  to  go,  but  be  desirous  to  be  absent 
from  the  body,  that  you  may  be  present  with  the  Lord  !  To  the  disciple  prepared  for  his  great  change,  death 
is  gain — happy  indeed  will  the  current  year  be  to  you  if  it  shall  waft  you  from  this  world  of  sin  to  the  sinless 
city  of  God.  It  would  give  us  pleasure  to  see  you,  but  we  cannot.  We  will  still  hope  and  pray  for  your  re- 
covery ;  that  you  may  regain  strength  and  continue  longer  with  your  friends  before  you  go  hence.  But  if  the 
Lord  shall  take  you  from  us  before  another  interview,  we  shall  try  to  follow  after  and  meet  you  in  that  land 
where  the  friends  of  Jesus  shall  be  forever  together.  Accept  our  love  and  best  wishes  for  all  good  for  both 
worlds.  Present  our  love  and  sympathy  to  Mrs.  Bayard  and  your  children,  with  all  other  friends,  and  as- 
sure yourself  of  the  unalterable  friendship  of 

Your  affectionate  brother,  William  M.  Tennent. 

Colonel  John  Bayakd. 


68  Colonel  John  Bayard  (1738-1807)  [April, 

In  describing  Colonel  Bayard's  character,  the  praise  of  which  was  "  in 
all  the  churches,"  his  eldest  daughter  writes:  "The  example  which  our 
parent  has  set  us  should  be  ever  in  our  minds.  Though  engaged  in  the  busy 
and  tumultuous  scenes  of  life,  he  never  remitted  his  attention  to  religion. 
Neither  politics,  nor  the  pursuit  of  wealth  and  power,  nor  the  attractions 
the  world  presented  to  allure,  ever  turned  him  from  the  principles  he  em- 
braced in  youth.  He  could  not  be  accused  either  of  enthusiasm  on  the 
one  hand,  nor  melancholy  or  superstition  on  the  other.  He  possessed  a 
cheerful  and  benign  temperament,  which  softened  the  trials  and  adversities 
weighing  on  many  periods  of  his  life.  His  heart,  naturally  tender  and 
ardent,  was  thus  sustained  in  constant  equanimity.  The  difficult  eras  of 
his  life  were  adorned  with  bright  and  peculiar  virtue.  His  impetuosity  of 
temper  required  strong  principle  to  subdue,  and  the  undeviating  gentleness 
and  forbearance  that  he  exercised,  were  most  admirable  and  worthy  of 
imitation."  * 

Colonel  Bayard  was  certainly  "a  patriot  of  singular  purity  of  charac- 
ter," at  once  so  devout  and  humble,  so  just  and  generous,  that  he  was  re- 
spected and  beloved  by  all  who  had  the  happiness  to  know  him.  No  man, 
1  think,  ever  more  completely  embraced  the  words  of  Matthew  Arnold, 
"sweetness  and  light,"  than  John  Bavard,  whose  fragrant  memory  is  a  pre- 
cious !%ac)  Lu  his  children,  and  children's  children.  "The  glory  of  chil- 
dren are  their  fathers."  In  the  words — applied  to  another — of  the  greatest 
of  living  men,f  who  expressed  to  the  speaker  his  belief  that  the  chevalier 
Bayard  was  the  most  beautiful  character  of  his  age  :  "  Over  the  tomb  of 
such  a  man  many  tears  might  fall,  but  not  one  could  be  a  tear  of  bitter- 
ness. These  examples  of  rare  intelligences,  .  .  .  with  their  great 
duties  greatly  done,  are  not  lights  kindled  for  a  moment,  in  order  then  to 
be  quenched  in  the  blackness  of  darkness.  While  they  pass  elsewhere  to 
attain  their  consummation,  they  live  on  here  in  their  good  deeds,  in  their 
venerated  memories,  in  their  fruitful  example.  .  .  .  His  exact  place 
in  the  hierarchy  of  bygone  excellence  it  is  not  for  us  to  determine  ;  but 
none  can  doubt  that  it  is  a  privilege  which,  in  the  revolutions  of  the  years, 
but  rarely  returns,  to  find  such  graces  and  such  gifts  of  mind,  heart,  char- 
acter, and  person  united  in  one  and  the  same  individual,  ...  for  the 
instruction  and  admiration  of  mankind." 

In  conclusion,  I  wish  to  say  a  few  words  concerning  James  Asheton 
Bayard,  the  nephew  and  adopted  son  of  Colonel  Bayard,  and  the  most 
eminent  member  of  the  Bayard  family  of  America.  He  was  the  second 
son  of  Dr.  Bayard,  who  died  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-three,  and  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  July  28,  1767.  His  education  was  intrusted  to  a  young 
clergyman  of  Picqua,  in  Lancaster  County,  but  eventually  he  returned  to 
his  uncle's  roof  in  Philadelphia,  and  pursued  his  studies  under  the  direc- 
tion of  a  private  tutor,  until  his  admission  into  Princeton  College.  He 
was  graduated  at  seventeen,  and  from  the  early  development  of  those 
talents  and  that  diligence  which  distinguished  him  in  after-life,  he  won  the 
highest  honor  of  the  institution.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  his  uncle's 
intimate  friend,  President  P.eed,  and  after  his  death,  in  1785,  continued  his 
legal  studies  under  Jared  Ingersoll,  afterward  Attorney-General  of  Penn- 
sylvania, being  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Delaware,  where  he  had  decided  to 

*  The  Light  of  Other  Days:   Sketches  of  the  Past,  and  other  Selections  from  the  Writings  of  Mrs.  Jane 
Kirkpatrkk,  edited  by  her  daughter,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Cogswell.     1856,  pp.  55. 
t  William  F.wart  GUdbtoue  on  Prince  Albert,  1S84. 


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practise,  before  he  was  of  age.  In  1795  he  married  Ann,  daughter  of 
Governor  Bassett,  of  Delaware, :,t:"and  in  the  following  year  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  Congress,  where  he  almost  immediately  won  the  position  of  the 
leader  of  the  Federal  party.  Mr.  Bayard  particularly  distinguished  himself 
in  conducting  the  impeachment  of  William  Blount,  of  North  Carolina,  who 
was  expelled  from  the  Senate  in  1797,  for  having  instigated  the  Cherokees 
and  Creeks  to  assist  the  British  in  conquering  the  Spanish  territory  in 
Louisiana. 

Bayard's  influence,  combined  with  that  of  Hamilton,  contributed,  power- 
fully to  the  election  of  Jefferson  over  Burr,  in  their  memorable  contest  for 
the  Presidency  ;  and  in  the  debate  which  preceded  the  repeal,  in  March, 
1802,  of  the  judiciary  bill,  he  displayed  consummate  ability  in  defence  of 
the  system,  which  was,  however,  overthrown.  He  declined  the  post  of 
Minister  to  France,  tendered  to  him  by  John  Adams  when  he  was  only 
thirty-three,  although  it  had  been  more  than  intimated  to  him,  by  those 
who  were  influential  in  Mr.  Jefferson's  counsels,  that  if  Mr.  Bayard  would 
go  abroad  he  would  not  be  recalled  by  the  new  administration.  His  letter 
to  the  President,  declining  the  mission,  first,  because  it  would  take  the 
"outfit"  and  the  "infit"  of  money  from  the  Treasury  without  the  length 
of  service  that  both  were  intended  to  be  applied  to  ;  and,  secondly,  be- 
cause the  turn  he  hau  given  to  events  in  the  late  Presidential  election 
might  cause  his  motives  to  be  questioned,  if  he  retained  office  under  Jeffer- 
son, has  always  been  a  source  of  great  pride  to  his  family. 

In  1804  Bayard  was  transferred  to  the  Senate,  where  he  remained  until 
selected  by  Mr.  Madison  as  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  negotiate  a  peace 
with  Great  Britain,  under  the  mediation  of  the  Emperor  Alexander  of 
Russia.  He  accordingly  sailed  from  Philadelphia,  in  company  with  Albert 
Gallatin,  in  May,  18 13,  arriving  at  St.  Petersburg  in  July.  All  hope  of 
peace  through  the  good  offices  of  the  Emperor  being  abandoned,  in  the 
following  January  Mr.  Bayard  proceeded,  by  way  of  Berlin,  to  Holland, 
where,  after  spending  several  months  in  England,  he  joined  the  other  com- 
missioners, consisting  of  John  Quincy  Adams,  Henry  Clay,  Jonathan  Rus- 
sell, and  Albert  Gallatin,  taking  an  active  part  in  negotiating  the  treaty  of 
peace  signed  in  December,  18 14,  at  Ghent,  and  which  bears  the  name  of 
that  town.f     Immediately  after  the  ratification  of  the  treaty,  Bayard   was 

*  Richard  Bassett  was  a  member  of  the  United  States  Senate  in  1789-93;  Governor  of  Delaware  in 
1798-1801  ;  and  United  States  District  Judge  in  1801-2.     He  died  in  September,  1815. 

t  When  Bayard  and  the  other  commissioners,  on  the  part  of  the  United  States,  and  Lord  Gambier, 
Henry  Gouldburn,  and  William  Adams,  or.  the  part  of  Great  Britain,  were  endeavoring  to  come  to  an  un- 
derstanding on  the  important  questions  of  the  navigation  of  the  Mississippi  River  and  the  fishery  privileges, 
the  British  plenipotentiaries  sought  to  alarm  the  Americans  by  informing  them  of  the  invincible  army  which 
was  moving  on  New  Orleans,  supported  by  a  powerful  fleet.  They  dwelt  on  the  gallantry  and  daring  of 
Sir  Edward  Packenham,  laid  much  stress  upon  the  superb  character  of  his  troops,  which  they  truthfully  de- 
clared were  the  flower  of  the  British  army,  veterans  of  the  victorious  Peninsular  campaign,  and  Lord  Gam- 
bier gleefully  remarked,  "New  Orleans  will  soon  be  in  our  possession,  and  the  free  navigation  of  the  Missis- 
sippi assured  to  us."  This  greatly  nettled  Mr.  Clay,  who  had  determined  never  to  concede  the  point  as  to 
the  great  river,  which  with  prophetic  eye  he  saw  must  one  day  become  the  grandest  commercial  highway  on 
the  globe,  and  so,  with  the  instinct  of  the  true  Kentuckian,  he  at  once  offered  to  wager  Lord  Gambier  that 
the  British  army  would  never  capture  New  Orleans,  and  that  Packenham  would  be  disastrously  defeated. 
"  For."  said  he,  "  1  am  informed  that  General  Andrew  Jackson,  from  Tennessee,  has  gone  to  New  Orleans, 
and  f  have  the  most  implicit  faith  in  his  ability  to  cope  with  your  army."  Lord  Gambier  joyfully  accepted 
the  wager,  which  he  fixed  at  a  hundred  guineas.  When  the  news  of  the  rout  of  the  British  army  at  Chal- 
mettc  and  of  the  death  of  Packenham  was  received  in  Europe,  Lord  Gambier  approached  Clay  at  a  grand 
ball — given  in  honor  of  the  success  of  the  negotiations  at  Ghent — and  handing,  him  the  hundred  guineas, 
said  :  "  Mr.  Clay,  I  believe  there  are  three  kinds  of  beings  under  the  special  care  and  protection  of  Divine 
Providence — lunatics,  drunkards,  and  the  American  people."  With  an  acquaintance  of  all  the  American 
and  British  signers  of  the  Treaty,  and  an  intimate  friend  of  Mr.  Bayard,  Count  Pahlen,  who  recently 
died  at  ninety-seven,  the  writer  passed  many  pleasant  hours  at  Cannes  in  February,  1883.  Pahlen  was 
present  at  the  above-mentioned  ball  in  Paris,  and  had  previously  become  intimate  with  Bayard  at  Wash- 
ington, where  the  venerable  man  had  spent  the  winters  of  1810-11  with  his  elder  brother,  the  Russian 
Minister, 


JO  Descendants  of  Colonel  Joh?i  Bayard,  [April, 

appointed  and  confirmed  as  Minister  to  Russia,  but  declined  on  the  ground 
that  he  had  no  wish  to  serve  the  administration  except  when  his  services 
were  required  for  the  good  of  his  country,  at  the  same  time  expressing  his 
willingness  to  co-operate  in  the  formation  of  a  commercial  treaty  with 
Great  Britain. 

Mr.  Bayard  left  Ghent  on  January  7,  1815,  and  proceeded  to  Paris, 
designing  to  remain  there  until  it  should  be  necessary  to  repair  to  London 
to  assist,  with  the  other  members  of  the  mission,  in  negociating  the  com- 
mercial treaty  with  which  they  had  also  been  charged.  Before  the  time 
arrived  he  was  seized  with  an  alarming  illness,  and  returning  home,  accom- 
panied by  his  friend  Clay,  reached  Wilmington  on  the  first  day  of  August. 
Providence,  which  saw  fit  to  remove  him  in  the  maturity  of  his  great 
powers  and  his  career  of  usefulness,  kindly  permitted  him  to  realize  the 
final  wish  of  his  heart,  to  embrace  once  more  his  wife  and  children,  and  to 
breathe  his  last  in  his  native  land,  He  died  August  6,  18 15,  at  the  same 
age  as  the  great  original  of  his  name,  who  was  mortally  wounded  on  the 
bloody  field  of  Biagrasso.     Thus  cut  off  suddenly 

" in  the  prime  of  honorable  days, 

In  the  full  noon  of  reputation's  blaze," 

he  was  eminently 

"•  Rich  in  the  esteem  of  all  his  fellow-men, 

With  love  and  reverence  known  in  life's  familiar  ways." 

James  Asheton  Bayard  was  a  tall,  well-proportioned,  erect  man,  of  light 
complexion,  light  hair,  of  handsome  face,  intelligent  and  manly  expression, 
and  of  courteous  and  dignified  manners.  His  portrait  was  painted  by 
Adolphe  Uhic  Wertmuller,  a  Swedish  artist,*  who  also  successfully  deli- 
neated the  face  and  figure  of  Washington.  Bayard  was  one  of  whom,  as 
of  his  uncle,  it  might  truly  be  said,  that  nature,  education,  mind,  heart,  and 
habit,  had  combined  to  make  a  gentleman.  His  eloquence  was  lofty  and 
commanding,  and  lie  stood  second  to  no  man  in  either  the  House  or 
Senate.  He  left  an  enviable  and  unblemished  reputation,  and  is  still  re- 
garded as  the  glory  of  Delaware,  as  his  illustrious  namesake  of  the  sixteenth 
century  was  then,  and  is  still  called,  the  pride  and  glory  of  France. 


Descendants  of  Colonel  John  Bayard. 

The  following  list  of  Colonel  Bayard's  children  and  adopted  children 
includes  all  those  who  attained  to  years  of  maturity,  and  who  were  the  issue 
of  his  first  marriage  with  Miss  Alargaret  Hodge,  and  her  sister's  marriage 
with  his  twin  brother,  Dr.  James  Asheton  Bayard.  By  his  second  wife,  nee 
Mary  Grant,  Colonel  Bayard  had  one  son  who  died  in  infancy,  and  by  his 
third  wife.  Miss  Johannah  White,  he  had  no  issue.  She  survived  her  hus- 
band for  many  years,  and  died  at  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  June  26,  1834. 

1.  James  Asheton,  named  after  his  uncle,  Dr.  Bayard,  was  born  May 
5,  1  760,  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Rogers  and  Elizabeth  Bayard  ; 

*  WerttnulLr's  portrait,  now  in  possession  of  Bayard's  grandson,  the  Secretary  of  State,  was  engraved  for 
the  "  National  Portrait  Gallery."  It  is  the  only  existing  likeness  except  a  medallion  made,  in  1807,  by  St. 
Meroin. 


1S85.J  Descendants  of  Colonel  John  Bayard. 

had  two  sons,  James  Asheton   and  Walton,  and  died   at  sea  on  his  return 
from  South  Carolina  in  June,  17S8. 

2.  Andrew,  named  after  his  maternal  grandfather,  was  born  February' 
24,  1762,  married  a  daughter  of  Colonel  Charles  Pettit,  of  the  Revolution- 
ary army  ;  had  Sarah,  John,  Elizabeth,  Theodosia,  James,  and  Charles. 
Andrew  Bayard  was  an  eminent  merchant  and  for  many  years  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Commercial  Bank  of  Philadelphia.  He  died  in  Philadelphia 
in  1S33. 

3.  John  Murray,  born  March  it,  1766,  married  Margaret  Carrick,  of 
Tom's  River,  N.  J.,  and  removed  to  the  estate  of  Weston  at  Millstone, 
Monmouth  County.  Hnd  one  daughter,  Jane,  who  married  A.  H.  Stevens, 
M.D.,  of  New  York.      He  died  at  Weston,  April  9,  1823. 

4.  Samuel,  born  January  n,  1767,  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Lewis 
Pintard  and  Susan  Stockton,  sister  of  the  Signer,  and  had  Lewis  Pintard, 
Susan,  Maria,  Samuel  John,  William  Marsden,  Elizabeth  Juliet,  and 
Caroline  Smith.  At  twenty-four  years  of  age  he  was  appointed  Clerk  of 
the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  He  was  sent  to  England  by  Washing- 
ton after  the  ratification  of  the  treaty  negotiated  by  Jay,  to  prosecute  the 
claims  of  American  citizens.  On  his  return  he  filled  various  important 
offices,  and  he  was  the  author  of  an  Abstract  of  the  Laws  of  the  United 
States,  Notts  lo  Peake's  Law  of  Evidence,  Letters  on  the  Sacrament,  and 
a  Funeral  Oration  on  the  Death  of  Washington.  He  died  in  Princeton, 
N.  J.,  May  11,  1840. 

5.  Jane,  named  after  maternal  grandmother,  was  born  July  12,  1 772» 
married  Andrew  Kirkpatrick,  for  twenty-four  years  Chief-Justice  of  New 
Jersey,  November  1,  [792  ;  had  Alary  Ann  Margaret,  John  Bayard,  George 
Littleton,  Jane  Eudora,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  and  Charles  Martel.  Mrs;  Kirk- 
patrick was  a  benevolent  Christian  lady  of  many  accomplishments,  includ- 
ing fine  literary  culture.      She  died  at  New  Brunswick,  February  16,  1851. 

6.  Nicholas,  an  eminent  physician,  born  October  8,  1774,  married 
Ann  Livingston,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Bayard,  of  New  York,  and  his 
wife,  Catharine  Livingston  ;  had  Nicholas,  Jane,  and  Margaret.  He  died 
at  Savannah,  Ga.,  where  he  practised  successfully  for  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, November  21,  1S21. 

7.  Margaret,  born  February  20,  1778,  married  Samuel  Harrison 
Smith;  had  Julia,  Susan,  John  Bayard  Harrison,  and  Anne.  Mrs.  Smith, 
whose  husband  was  the  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  National  hitelligencer, 
was  like  her  sister,  Mrs.  Kirkpatrick.  a  highly  educated  lady,  well  known  in 
the  best  society  of  Washington.  One  of  her  works  is  entitled  "  A  Winter 
in  Washington'"      She  died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  June  7,  1S44. 

8.  Anna  Maria,  born  March  22,  1779,  married  Samuel  Boyd,  a  promi- 
nent lawyer  of  New  York  ;  had  Bayard,  Elizabeth,  Anna,  and  Isabella.  She 
died  at  the  residence  of  her  daughter  Mrs.  Hepburn,  in  Orange  County,  N. 
Y.,  in  November,  1S69,  the  last  survivor  of  Colonel  Bayard's  children. 

DR.    BAYARD'S    CHILDREN    ADOPTED    BY    COLONEL    BAYARD. 

i.  Jane,  born  about  1763;  never  married  ;  died  after  passing  middle 
age.  To  distinguish  them,  the  cousins  were  known  in  Colonel  Bayard's 
household  as  "Big  Jane"  and  "Little  Jane,"  the  latter  the  doctor's 
daughter. 

2.  John  Hodge,  born  about  1765,  settled  in  Cumberland,  MA,  and 
died  unmarried,  about  1S2C. 


y 2  Rogers  Li?ieage.  [April, 

3.  James  Asheton,  born  July  28,  1767,  married  in  1795  Ann  Bassetr, 
daughter  of  Senator  Bassett,  of  Delaware,  had  Richard  H.,  who  married 
Miss  Carroll  of  the  Signer's  family  ;  Caroline;  James  Asheton,*  who  married 
Miss  Francis,  of  Philadelphia  ;  Edward,  who  married  Miss  Johnson  ;  Mary, 
and  Henry  M.  Of  these  only  Dr.  Edward  Bayard,  of  New  York,  and  the 
youngest  son  survive.      He  died  at  Wilmington,  August  6,  1S15. 


ROGERS   LINEAGE. 
By  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,   of  Clinton,   Oneida  Co.,   N.  Y. 


(Continued  from  p.  25  of  this  volume  of  the  Record.) 

The  subject  which  has  been  presented  under  this  general  title,  in  its 
various  relations  and  connections,  has  taken  a  distinct  form  of  its  own, 
each  time,  suggested  by  the  facts  that  have  come  to  light  in  the  investiga- 
tions made.  Thorough  search  was  made  vigorously  at  once,  from  first  to 
last,  for  all  possible  facts  discoverable  in  a  wide  field  of  inquiry,  where  the 
appearance  was,  ai  the  outset,  wcry  strong,  that  no  facts  of  much  value 
were  ascertainable  now.  Where  well-nigh  utter  neglect,  indifference,  and 
ignorance  seemed,  at  least,  to  prevail  with  almost  unbroken  sway,  it  has 
been  found  possible  to  bring  into  plain  view  a  story  of  lineal  connections 
and  relations,  which  it  will  seem  both  a  joy  and  an  honor  for  any  cultivated 
person  to  know,  and  to  make  known,  concerning  the  belter  families  of  the 
land  to  whom  it  pertains.  In  the  first  article  the  descendants  of  Dr.  Uriah 
Rogers  and  of  Hon.  Samuel  Rogers,  both  of  Norwalk,  came  equally  into 
view,  and  were  presented  together  with  similar  fulness  of  manifestation, 
side  by  side.  The  second,  or  January  article,  was  occupied  almost  exclu- 
sively with  facts  pertaining  to  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  and  his  noted  descend- 
ants. The  present  and  concluding  number  contains  in  it,  indeed,  a  slight 
addition,  in  spirit  and  substance,  to  the  contents  of  the  second  number, 
and  is  therefore  so  numbered  ;  but  it  is  almost  wholly  devoted,  in  fact,  to 
the  descendants  of  Samuel  Rogers,  considered  by  themselves. 

No.  XII.  (see  p.  153),  17.  iv.,  Jedediah  Rogers,  of  Redding,  Conn.,  who 
m.  Milly  Read  (dau.  of  Hezekiah  and  Anna  Read),  had  two  children  : 
Eleanor  Rogers,  who  d.  when  an  infant,  and  Eliza  Read  Rogers.  She  was 
b.  March  8,  18 iS,  and  m.,  in  1845,  Rev.  John  Cotton  Terrett,  b.  at  Ston- 
ington,  Conn.,  July  5,  1809,  grad.  at  Williams  College  in  1833,  and  at 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York,  in  1S44.  He  was  settled  for  a 
brief  period  as  a  Congregational  clergyman  at  Middletown,  Orange  County, 
New  York,  but  has  resided  as  a  permanent  invalid  at  Sharon,  Conn.,  for 
several  years.  Of  four  children  that  they  have  had,  two,  the  eldest  and 
the  youngest,  Horatio  Nelson  Terrett  and  John  Nelson  Terrett,  died  in 
infancy.     The  two  surviving  ones  were  : 

*  His  son.  the  Secretary  of  State,  who  is  connected  with  that  dead  and  gone  worthy  Sir  Philip  Franc's, 
the  author  of  "Junius,"  las  in  his  possession  a  ietter  addressed  by  Sir  Philip  to  his  American  kinsman. 
Colonel  Turbott  Francis,  the  Secretary's  great-grand-un.cie.  The  Englishman  writes  to  the  Philadelphia 
Colonel  concerning  some  property  in  Maryland.  "  I  am  determined  to  keep  a  little  freehold  in  America." 
be  says.  "At  present  lam  bound'  to  the  Ganges,  but  who  knows  whether  I  may  not  end  my  days  on  the 
banks  of  the  Ohio  ?  It  gives  me  ereat  comfort  to  reflect  that  I  have  relatives  who  are  honest  fellows  in  almost 
every  part  of  the  world.  In  America  the  name  of  Francis  flourishes.  I  don't  iike  to  think  of  the  quantity  of 
salt  water  between  us.     If  it  were  ciaret  I  would  drink  ray  way  to  America." 


i88v]  Rogers  Lineage. 


73 


1.  Isabel  Mosier  Terrett,  b.  June  15,  1847;  resides,  unmarried, 

in  Sharon. 

2.  Rev.  William   Rogers  Terrett,  b.  July   19,    1849,   at   New 

York;  grad.  at  Williams  College  in  1S71,  and  at  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary  in  1874.  He  settled  as  a  Presbyterian 
clergyman  in  Amenia.  N.  Y.,  and  afterwards  at  Dalton,  Mass.,  as 
a  Congregational  clergyman  ;  and  is  now  pastor  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.  He  m.,  Nov. 
20,  1878,  Eleanor  Merrill,  of  Littleton,  N.  H.  He  has  two 
children  :  (1)  John  Rogers  Terrett,  b.  at  Sharon,  Conn.,  Sept., 
1.879;   (2)  Mildred  Terrett,  b.  at  .Dalton,  Mass.,  Nov.,  1881. 

[A  misconception  should  be  corrected  here,  that  is  to  be  found  in  the 
October  number  of  1S84,  under  head  17.  iv.,  concerning  Jedediah  Rogers. 
The  second  wife,  Abigail,  spoken  of  there  as  his,  was  the  second  wife  of 
Hezekiah  Read,  his  father  in-law. J 

No.  XIII.  Since  putting  the  January  number  of  the  Record  to  press, 
Warren  R.  Dix,  Esq.,  has  addressed  to  the  writer  the  following  interesting 
and  important  letter  : 

"  160  Broadway, 
"New  York,  Feb.  27,  1885. 
"Rev,  B.  W.  D  wight,  Clinton,  N.  V.  : 

"  My  Dear  Sir:  I  have  just  been  favored  at  last,  in  securing  the  facts, 
which,  I  am  happy  to  say,  substantiate  the  view  that  you  have  given  of  the 
Rogers  Lineage.  The  letter  of  Miss  Caulkins  (the  historian  of  Norwich, 
Conn.)  is  now  in  my  hands,  and  fortunately  introduces  the  reader  directly 
to  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn.  She  presents  him  as  the  younger 
brother  of  my  ancestor  'James,'  verifying  your  supposition  in  the  Octo- 
ber, 18S4,  number  of  the  Record  (p.  151).  Capt.  James  Rogers,  b. 
1675,  in  New  London,  Conn.,  was  son  of  Capt.  James  Rogers,  b.  in  1652, 
who  was  son  of  James  the  Settler.  i  Capt.  James,  b.  in  1675.  in  New 
London,  removed,'  Miss  Caulkins  says,  'in  the  latter  part  of  his  life  to 
Norwalk,  and  there  d.  July  16,  1733,  leaving  sons  and  daughters  at  New 
London,  Norwalk,  and  elsewhere.  One  of  the  sons,  Uriah,  b.  in  New 
London  in  1710,  was  a  physician  of  Norwalk  (see  "  PI  all's  Norwalk,"  p. 
213,'"  At  this  point  Wr.  R.  Dix,  Esq.,  breaks  the  thread  of  the  passage 
quoted,  and  speaking  for  himself  says  to  the  writer:  "I  have  not  been  able 
to  examine  the  work  referred  to,  but  perhaps  you  have  seen  it.  Miss  Caul- 
kins' letter  continues  about  other  members  of  the  family,  viz.,  '  James, 
brother  of  Dr.  Uriah,'  and  three  sons  of  James,  viz.:  Uriah,  who  removed 
to  Norwich  {i.e.,  ' Major  Uriah'  see  Record,  p.  153),  Edmund,  and  (my 
great-grandfather) y^/v//"//^.  These  are  now,"  adds  Mr.  Dix,  in  conclusion, 
"the  facts  as  we  now  can  see  them  to  be,  by  united  testimony  from  various 
quarters  combining  in  the  grand  total  result :  that  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  and 
Samuel  Rogers  were  brothers,  and  Jeremiah  (great-grandfather  of  W.  R. 
Dix,  Esq.)  was  a  son  of  a  brother  of  Dr.  Uriah  (James)  ;  as  also  the  four  New 
York  Rogers  brothers,  merchants,  were  sons  of  Samuel,  and  so  cousins  to 
the  sons  of  his  brothers."  They  are  all  placed  together  by  Miss  Caulkins' 
recently  obtained  letter,  here  quoted,  in  the  New  London  Rogers  family, 
and  all  made  descendants  in  common  of  James  Rogers,  the  settler,  by  its 
direct  declarations,  or  necessary  inferences,  as  Mr.  Dix  claims.  He  con- 
cludes by  saying:   "I  feel  very  thankful  that  this  matter  is  at  last   settled, 


74  *         Rogers  Lineage.  [April, 

as  it  has  occupied  my  thoughts  very  much,  and  to  the  exclusion  of  other 
matters  which  needed  attention.  The  results  gained  substantiate  fully 
the  statements  niacte  in  our  branch  of  the  Rogers  family,  at  various  times, 
by  my  grandmother  and  older  relatives  concerning  our  mutual  relationship 
with  the  families  of  Moses,  Nehemiah,  and  Henry  Rogers,  of  New  York, 
and  their  various  connections.  Very  truly  yours, 

"  Warren  R.  Dix," 

This  article  is  continued  from  this  point  onward  in  direct  connection, 
from  the  October  number,  p.  159,  of  18S4.  The  contents  of  the  January 
number  must,  in  order  to  have  at  all  its  proper  sense  and  significance  in 
the  reader's  mind,  be  regarded  as  lying  interjected,  the  whole  of  it,  be- 
tween the  October  and  April  numbers  of  the  Record. 

THIRD    GENERATION. 

17.  ii.  (p.  158).  Benjamin  Woolsey  Rogers  (son  of  Moses  Rogers,  of 
New  Yoik,  and  Sarah  Woolsey),  b.  May  13,  1775,  m-  Dec.  10,  1S07,  Susan 
Bayard  (dau.  of  William  Bayard,  of  New  York,  and  Elizabeth  Cornell). 
She  d.  at  sea,  Oct.  11,  1814;  and  he  in.  for  his  second  wife  Catharine 
Cecilia  Eiwyn,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  whose  mother  was  a  dau.  of  Gover- 
ro-  T,afigdon,  of  New  Hampshire..  She  d.  March  14,  1833.  He  d.  Dec. 
12,  1859,  aSed  eighty-four.  He  was  a  large  importer  of  hardware  in  New 
York.  He  was  for  thirty-eight  years  a  Governor  of  the  New  York  Hos- 
pital, and  one  of  the  founders  of  The  Bloomingdale  Asylum  for  the  Insane, 
and  a  large  landholder  in  Western  New  York  (the  Genesee  District). 

All  of  his  children  but  the  last  were  by  the  first  marriage. 

FOURTH    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

27.  i.  William  Bayard  Rogers,  b.  Oct.  27,  iSoS^who  resides,  un- 

married, in  New  York  City. 

28.  ii.  Sarah  Rogers,  b.  Oct.  29,  1809.  m.  April  4,  1839,  William 

Paterson  Van  Rensselaer,  b.  March  6,  1806  (son  of  Stephen 
Van  Rensselaer,  of  Albany,  "  the  Patroon,"  and  Cornelia  Pater- 
son, dau.  of  Judge  William  Paterson,  of  Amboy,  N.  J.).  He  is 
a  resident  of  New  York.     They  have  had  eight  children. 

29.  iii.  Eliza  Bayard  Rogers,  b.  Aug.  17,  1811,  d.  March  20,  1835, 

aged  twenty-three. 

30.  iv.  Benjamin  Woolsey  Rogers,  b.  Oct.  31,  1813,  m.  Helena 

Hoffman  (dau.  of  Dr.  Richard  Kissarn  Hoffman,  a  distinguished 
surgeon  in  New  York,  who  d.  in  1S61,  and  jane  Benson).  Pie 
d.  in  1852,  aged  thirty-nine.  Pie  had  one  son,  Hoffman  Rog- 
ers. He  was  b.  July  9,  1S46,  and  m.,  Dec,  1872,  Lucy  Dix 
Ferdon,  b.  April  23,  1852  (dau.  of  Hon.  John  Ferdon,  of  Pier- 
mont,  N.  Y..  and  Plarriet  Strong,  d.  of  Professor  Theodore 
Strong,  of  Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  N.  j.). 

31.  v.  Thomas    Elwyn    Rogers,   b.   in    1820,   d.   in    1837,   aged 
seventeen. 

third  generation  (p.  158,  October  number). 

18.  iii.  Archibald  Rogers  (named  after  his  uncle  Archibald  Gracie, 
and  son  of  Moses  Rogers  and  Sarah  Woolsey),  b.  in  i793>  m-3  May  18,  1820, 
Anna  Pierce  Pendleton,  b.  in  1797  (dau.  of  Judge  Nathaniel  Pendleton,  of 


1885.J  Rogers  Lineage.  yc 

"Placentia,"  Hyde  Park,  X.  Y.,  the  intimate  friend  of  Alexander  Hamilton, 
and  his  second  in  the  duel  with  Aaron  Burr,  and  Susan  Bard,  dan.  of  Dr. 
Tohn  Bard,  of  New  York,  of  Huguenot  descent.  Mrs.  Anna  Pendleton 
Rogers  d.  at  Hyde  Park.  X.  Y..  Dec.  26,  1SS3,  aged  eighty-six.  Archibald 
Rogers,  Esq.,  d.  there  of  apoplexy,  Feb.  10,  1850,  aged  fifty-six. 

Their  son,  Philip  Clayton  Rogers,  Esq.,  of  Staatsburgh,  N.  Y..  writes: 
" A  kindlier  hearted,  more  generous  man  than  Archibald  Rogers,  my 
father,  could  no:  be  found.  My  mother  was  a  woman  of  dauntless  courage, 
serene,  cheerful,  tender,  and  true.  If  she  had  a  fear,  it  was  lest  she  should 
not  thoroughly  do  her  Master's  will.  If  she  had  an  anxiety,  it  was  only  on 
account  of  her  beloved  children.  Through  the  vicissitudes  of  a  long  life, 
her  faith  and  cheerfulness  never  wavered.  Of  a  deeply  religious  nature, 
devoted  to  good  works,  she  found  herself,  in  her  old  age,  surrounded  with 
loving  children  and  grandchildren,  the  object  of  their  reverence  and  affec- 
tion ;  and  in  the  fulness  of  years  and  honor,  loving  and  tenderly  beloved 
by  all  her  descendants,  she  fell  asleep  in  death  in  her  eighty-seventh  year, 
as  tranquilly  as  a  little  child." 

FOURTH    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

32.  i.  Nathaniel  Pendleton  Roger?,  b.  April  29,  1822,  a  lawyer 
residing  foi  many  years  in  New  York  City,  but  of  late  years  in 

Hyde  Park,  X.  Y.  ■ 

33.  ii.  Julia  Ann  Rogers,  b.   Feb.    12,   1824,  d.  at  Hyde  Park, 

Sept.  6,  1824. 

34.  iii.  Archibald  Rogers,  b.  Aug.  10,  1825,  d.  March  30,  1S31. 

35.  iv.   Edmund  Pendleton  Rogers,   b.   July  31,   1S27.  at  New 

York. 

36.  v.  Philip  Clayton  Rogers,  b.  Aug.  13,  1829. 

37.  vi.  Archibald  Rogers,  b.  Nov.  12,  1832,  and  d.  Dec.  20,  1836. 

38.  vii.  Susan  Bard  Rogers,  b.  Nov.  4,  1834,  in.  Herman  Thong 
Livingston. 

32.  i.  Nathaniel  Pendleton  Rogers,  b.  April  29,  1S22,  in.,  in  1849, 
Emily  Moulton.     lie  resides  in  Hyde  Park,  X'.  Y. 

FIFTH    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

39.  i.   Henry  Pendleton  Rogers,  b.  about  1850,  m.  Mary  Shillito, 

of  Cincinnati,  O. 

40.  ii.   Anna  Pendleton  Rogers,  m.  Charles  D.  Fuller,  of  X'ew 

York. 

41.  iii.  Francis  M.  Rogers,  d.  in  1865. 

42.  iv.  Nathaniel  P.  Rogers,  m.  Catharine  Wotherspoon,  of  X'ew 

York. 

43.  v.  John  Bard  Rogers,  resides,  unmarried,  in  X'ew  York  City. 

44.  vi.  Elizaeeth  M.  Rogers. 

FOURTH    GENERATION. 

35.  iv.  Edmund  Pendleton  Rogers  (son  of  Archibald  Rogers  and 
Anna  Pierce  Pendleton),  b.  July  31,  1827,  m.  about  1S50,  Virginia  Dummer, 
of  Jersey  City,     He  has  had  one  son: 

45.  i.  Archibald  Rogers,  b.  Feb.  22,  1851.  He  m.  Anna,  dau.  of 
William  Coleman,  of  Cornwall,  Pa.  They  have  had  three 
children. 


76  Rogers  Lineage.  f April, 

FIFTH    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

46.  i.  Archibald  Rogers,  b.  Feb.,  1SS0. 

47.  ii.  Edmund  Pendleton  Rogers,  b.  July,  1882. 

48.  iii,  Robert  Coleman  Rogers,  b.  in  1S83,  and  d,  aged  eleven 
months. 

fourth  generation. 

36.  v.   Philip  Clayton  Rogers  (son  of  Archibald  Rogers  and  Anna  P. 
Pendleton),  b.  Aug.  13,  1829,  m.  Julia  Kavanagh. 

He  resides  at  Staatsburgh,  Duchess  County,  N.  Y.  He  obtained  his 
early  education  in  New  York  City,  and  took  a  part  of  the  College  course 
at  Columbia  College  there,  but  spent  six  years  in  preparation  at  Robert 
Kermit's  counting-room,  and  then  became  Secretary  of  the  Second  Av- 
enue Railroad.  In  1859  he  went  to  China,  and  in  1861,  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  late  Union  War,  he  became  Second  Lieutenant  in  the  Fifty- 
fifth  Regiment,  New  York  Volunteers,  and  afterward,  Captain.  He  served 
on  General  Owen's  staff  in  the  Second  Army  Corps,  and  afterward  on 
General  Albion  P.  Howe's  staff.  In  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  he  was 
taken  a  prisoner  in  battle  and  was  held  for  four  months  in  a  rebel  prison. 
On  his  seeking  to  make  his  escape  Southward,  he  was  retaken  by  hounds, 
but  was  exchanged,  znd  arrived  at  last  safely  at  his  home  in  Duchess 
County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  has  ever  since  resided,  as  a  gentleman-farmer. 
He  takes  great  and  honest  pleasure  in  recalling  the  fact,  that  "the  Rogers 
families  that  he  has  known,  have  moved  in  the  best  circles  of  society  where 
they  have  lived,  and  have  married  into  the  old  and  established  families  of 
the  region.  The  Rogers  family  he  thus  delights  to  honor,  as  an  old  Eng- 
lish family  of  excellent  repute  ;  and  many  other  families  of  like  excellence 
in  full  affinity  with  them  by  marriage,  of  other  nationalities  than  theirs,  as 
the  Muirsons  (Scotch),  the  Gillespies  and  Bards  (Huguenots),  and  the 
Pendletons.  Crugers,  Johnstons,  Winthrops,  Woolseys,  Gracies,  Moores 
(English),  all,  with  others  like  them,  names  of  high  deserving,  and  worthy 
of  lasting  honor  in  the  land.  When  not  en°;a<red  in  the  service  of  their 
country,  or  in  professional  services,  or  in  mercantile  enterprise,  they  have 
been,  as  a  rule,  if  not  devoted  to  literary  pursuits,  gentlemen-farmers,  en- 
joying the  delights  of  refined  and  cultivated  homes,  or  dispersing  abroad, 
through  the  community  around  them,  the  benefits  cf  both  generous  and 
elegant  hospitality." 

Blessings  on  such  noble  hearts,  wherever  they  are  found  in  American 
society. 

fifth  generation,  children. 

49.  i.  Philip"  Clayton  Rogers,  b.  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  29,  1865. 

50.  ii.  Julia  Ann  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  4,  1867. 

51.  iii.  James  Muirson  Rogers,  b.  at  Troy,  Sept.  27,  1S74,  shot 
accidentally  and  killed  by  a  gun-shot  wound,  by  a  young  com- 
panion, May  25,  1S82. 

52.  iv.  Juliana  Rogers,  b.  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.Y.,  April  24,  1878. 

53.  v.  Virginia  Rogers,  b.  at  Pleasant  Plains,  N.  Y.,  April   10, 

18S2. 

fourth    generation. 

7,8.  vii.  Susan  Bard  Rogers  (dau.  of  Archibald  Rogers  aud  of  Anna  P. 
Pendleton),  b.  Nov.  4,  1834,  m.,  in  1853,  Herman  Thong  Livingston. 


18S5.J  Rogers  Lineage.  yy 

FIFTH     GENERATION",    CHILDREN. 

54.  i.   Herman  Livingston,  b.  about  1854. 

55.  ii.  Edmund  P.  Livingston,  b.  about  1856. 

56.  iii.  John  Cruger  Livingston,  b.  about  1S58. 

57.  iv.   Anna  Pendleton  Livingston,  b.  about  1863. 

58.  v.  Archibald  Livingston,  b.  about  1869. 

59.  vi.  Sarah  Livingston,  b.  about  1872. 

third   generation, 

19.  iv.  Julia  Ann  Rogers  (dau.  of  Moses  Rogers  and  Sarah  Woolsey), 
b.  in  17S8;  m.,  Aug.  14,  1S0S,  Francis  JBayard  Winthrop,  Jr.,  b.  March 
20,  1787  (son  of  Francis  B.  VVinthrop  and  Elsie  Marston).  She  d.  April 
14,  1814,  aged  twenty-six.  He  m.,  for  second  wife,  her  cousin  Elizabeth 
Woolsey,  b.  Oct.  6,  1 794  (dau.  of  William  Walton  Woolsey  and  Elizabeth 
D  wight).     Seep.  158,  October  number. 

fourth  generation,  children. 

60.  i.   Sarah   Rogers  Winthrop,   b.  Aug.    2S,  18 10;  d.   Feb.  12, 

1812. 

61.  ii.  Rev,  Edward  Winthrop,  of  Highgate,  Vt.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1S11  ; 
d.  Oct.  31,  1S65,  aged  fifty-four,  lie  was  graduated  at  Yale  in 
1 83 1.  He  m.,  for  first  wife,  Marian  Penney,  and  for  second  wife, 
Elizabeth  Andrus.  Fie  was  Professor  of  Sacred  Literature  in 
the  Kentucky  Episcopal  Theological  Seminary  at  Lexington, 
Ky.,  and  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Cincinnati,  O.,  and 
afterward  at  Marietta,  O.,  at  Norwalk,  O.,  and  at  Highgate,  Vt., 
where  he  died. 

62.  iii.   Charles  Archibald  Winthrop,  b.  Jan.  25,  1813  ;  resides 

in  Cambridge,  Mass. 

second  generation  (p.  156). 

4.  iii.  Susannah  Rogers  (dau.  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn., 
and  Elizabeth  Fitch),  b.  about  1752  j  m.  Dec.  17,  1769,  David  Lambert, 
of  Norwalk,  Conn.  He  was  a  merchant  in  New  York  City  for  some  years, 
but  resided  as  a  retired  merchant,  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life,  at  Stamford, 
Conn.,  where  his  wife  lived  after  his  death  until  her  own  decease. 

third   generation,  children. 

63.  i.   Elizabeth  Lambert,  b.  Feb.  3,  1  7 7 1  ;  d.  early. 

64.  ii.   David  R.  (probably  Rogers)  Lambert,  b.  Dec.  8,  1772. 

65.  iii.   Lurany  Lambert,  b.  Jan.  22,  1778;  d.  early. 

66.  iv.   Esther  Lambert,  b.  April  14,  1780;  d.  early. 

67.  v.   Susan  Lambert,  b.  June  26,  1782  ;  m.  a  Mr.  Cruikshank,  of 

Toronto,  Canada.  They  had  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Howard,  resid- 
ing there  recently,  but  said  to  be  of  late  travelling  in  Europe 
(1884-5).  None  of  the  Rogers  relatives  seem  to  know  how 
to  secure  any  reliable  facts  concerning  their  Lambert  connec- 
tions, past  or  present.  The  same  deplorable  state  of  dilapida- 
tion seems,  in  fact,  to  characterize  the  historical  foundations  of 
the  Lambert  division  as  of  the  other  divisions  pf  the  Rogers 
family. 


7  8  Rogers ^Lineage.']  [April, 

68.  vj\  Samuel  I".  Lambert,  b.  Dec.  25,  1784;  d.  early. 

69.  vii.   John  James  Lambert,  b.  June  18,  1787;  d.  early.' 

70.  viii.  Julia  Marian  Lambert,  b.  April  5,  1792  ;  d.  early. 

second  generation  (p.  1 5 6). 

5.  iv.  Henry  Rogers  (son  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Nonvalk,  Conn,,  and 
Elizabeth  Fitch),  b.  April  12,  1753,  was  a  prosperous  and  wealthy  merchant 
in  New  York  and  noted  for  his  integrity  and  worth.  He  m.  Catharine  Van 
Raust,  b.  in  1752,  who  d.,  aged  forty,  Nov.  5,  1792.  He  had  by  her  two 
children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  [A  sister  of  his  wife  (first  name  unknown) 
in.  Edmund  Seaman,  a  New  York  merchant  of  that  day.] 

Henry  Rogers  m.}  for  a  second' wife,  Frances  Moore;  who  was  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  Moore,  who  lived,  in  his  later  years,  on  his  place  called 
Mt.  Tirzeh,  near  Fayetteville,  N.  C.  ;  and  who  was,  previously  to  the 
"American  War"  (as  the  British  called  it),  in  the  medical  department  of 
the  British  Province  of  New  York.  After  peace  was  declared  he  settled  as 
a  merchant  at  Peekskill  N.  Y.,  and  married  there  widow  Eve  Hall  (pre- 
vious name  unknown).  He  afterward  resided  for  several  years  at  West 
Point,  N.  Y.  (then  the  property  of  his  brother,  of  whom  it  was  bought  by 
the  United  States  Government).  From  West  Point,  N.  Y.,  he  removed  to 
Noith  C-rc-ILia,  a:  hi:  future  place  of  residence. 

Frances  Moore  was  adopted  in  early  life  by  her  aunt,  Mrs.  John  Smyth, 
of  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.,  and  was  commonly  called  by  her  friends  Miss 
Smyth.  She  was  educated  in  England  by  her  aunt.  Mr.  John  Smyth  was 
Treasurer  of  "The  Province  of  New  York"  during  the  American  (or  Rev- 
olutionary) War.  After  il  the  declaration  of  peace  "  he  was  obliged  to 
seek  protection  in  England  from  annoyances  of  various  kinds  and  degrees 
caused  by  his  fidelity  to  his  own  native  government.  He  d.  there  (when 
not  ascertained). 

third  generation,  children  (by  first  wife). 

71.  i.  Catharine  Rogers,  b.  about  1775  ;  d.  unmarried. 

72.  ii.  Henry  Fitch  Rogers,  b.  about  17S5  ;  m'.  in  1812,  his 
cousin,  Emily  Sophia  Rogers  (dau.  of  Fitch  Rogers  and  Han- 
nah Smith).  They  had  a  daughter  that  d.  under  two  years  of 
age.  He  no.  for  a  second  wife  a  Miss  Maxwell, 'dau.  of  Dr. 
Maxwell,  a  Scotch  physician  in  New  York  City.  He  had  by 
this  marriage  a  son  and  a  daughter  (names  unknown),  who,  each 
married,  but  left  New  York  for  parts  unknown,  and  their  subse- 
quent history  is  unknown  to  their  Rogers  relatives.  Henry 
Fitch  Rogers  d.  in  1862  at  the  Douglass  Farm,  on  Long  Isl- 
and, and  was  buried  there. 

(By  second  wife.) 

73.  iii.  Dr.  John   Smyth  Rogers,  b.  in   1795,  graduated  M.D.   at 

the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York,  in  182 1, 
practised  medicine  for  several  years  in  New  York.  His  health 
was  poor,  and  he  removed  for  the  sake  of  improving  it  to 
Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1829,  and  was  for  some  ten  years  Professor 
pf  Chemistry  in  Trinity  College  (then  called  Washington  Col- 
lege).    He  m.  Augusta  (dau.  of  Gov.  Thomas  L.  Wmthrop,  of 


88$.]  Rogers  Lineage.  jg 

Boston,  Mass.,  and  sister  of  Robert  C.  Winthrop).  She  d.  at 
Hartford,  Dec,  1S29  ;  and  he  d.  in  New  York,  March  29,  185  r, 
aged  fifty-six.     They  had  two  children,  viz.  : 

74.  (:)  Henry  Rogers,  whom.  Mary  Livingston  (dau.  of  Anthony 

Livingston),  then  living  at  Tarrytown,  N.  Y.,  but  residing  now 
(1885)  at  New  York. 

75.  (2)  Frances  Moore  Rogers,  whom.  William  Winthrop  Parkin, 

head  of  the  large  Chinese  commission  house  of  Oliphant  & 
Co.  They  have  several  children.  She  d.  of  pneumonia,  Feb. 
3,  1885. 

76.  iv.  Susan  Rogers  (dau.  of  Henry  Rogers  and  Frances  Moore), 

b.  Apiil  23,  1799,  m.,  Oct.  26,  1819,  Daniel  Remsen  (bro.  of 
Peter  Remsen,  a  prominent  New  York  merchant).  lie  d.  in 
Rome,  Italy,  in  1822  ;  she  d.  Aug.,  1864.     They  had  one  son. 

77.  i,  Simeon  Henry  Remsen,  b.  in  1820,  d.  in  1846.  He  m.  a 
dau.  of  Bishop  Wainwright,  of  New  York.  He  d.  childless, 
and  his  widow  m.  afterward  Henry  Holly  Hudson,  of  Connec- 
ticut, and  d.  in  1.882.  (See  N.  Y.  Gen.  and  Biog.  Record, 
vok  v.,  July,  1874  ;  P-  I4°»  No.  120,  I.) 

78.  v.  Emma  Rogers  (dau.   of  Henry  Rogers  and  Frances  Moore), 

b.  March  ^r^8^..^m.s  May  23,  1826,  Rev.  Smith  Pyne,  D.D.. 
b.  in  M i n agn\^Tip perary  Co.,  Ireland,  Jan.  8,  1S03.  He 
was  a  student  at  Eton,  England,  grad.  at  Columbia  College, 
New  York  in  182 3,  and  at  the  Episcopal  General  Theo- 
logical Seminary  at  New  York,  1825.  He  was  rector  of 
various  churches,  and  among  them  of  Calvary  Church,  New 
York,  and  of  St.  John's,  Washington,  D.  C,  for  twenty  years 
( 1 844-1 864).  He  was  an  earnest  Union  preacher  .during  the  late 
war.  Secretary  Stanton  ordered  on  one  occasion  one  thousand 
copies  of  one  of  his  Union  sermons  to  be  printed  at  the  expense 
of  the  Government,  and  to  be  read  at  the  head  of  all  the  regiments 
of  the  Union  Army.  Admiral  Dupont  sent  also  for  copies  to 
be  read  publicly  on  board  the  United  States  vessels  of  war. 
He  resigned  his  rectorship  in  1865,  on  account  of  poor 
health,  and  removed  his  residence  to  New  York,  where,  his 
widow  has  continued  to  reside  until  this  day  (1885).  He  d. 
Dec.  7,  1 8 75,  aged  seventy-two. 

fourth  generation  children. 

79.  i.  John    Pyne,  Esq.,  b.  in   1829,  grad.  at   St.  James'  College, 

Hagerstown,  Md.  Lie  was  for  twenty  years  a  practising 
lawyer  in  New  York,  and  in  partnership  with  Stephen 
•  Cambreleng,  Esq.,  a  distinguished  Chancery  lawyer.  He  m. 
a  daughter  of  Mr.  Cambreleng  (name  not  given),  and  d.  with- 
out issue,  Jan   3,  188 1. 

80.  ii.   Rev.  Henry  Rogers  Pyne,  b.  (date  not  given),  grad.  at  St. 

James'  College,  Maryland,  and  studied  divinity  at  the  General 
Theological  Seminary  at  New  York,  and  with  Bishop  Whitting- 
ham,  of  Maryland.  He  is  Rector  of  St.  Philip's  Church  at 
Wiscasset,  Me.        AlA^cH  F£fc     i$3£ 

81.  iii.  Rev.  Charles  Maroii  Pyne  (date  of  birth  not  given),  grad. 

at  St.  James'  College,  Maryland.     He  was  an    officer   in  the 


80  Rogers  Lineage.  [April, 

Union  Army  in  the  late  war,  and  lost  a  leg  at  the  second  battle 
of  Bull  Run.  lie  studied  divinity  in  the  Berkeley  -Divinity 
School  in  Middletown,  Conn. — his  father  having  been,  in  the 
early  part  of  his  ministry,  for  eight  years  Rector  of  Christ 
Church  at  Middletown.  He  is  now  assistant  editor  of  The 
Churchman,  and  Assistant  Rector  of  Christ  Church,  at  Eliza- 
beth, N.  J.  (18S5). 

82.  iv.   Susan    Augusta  Pvne,    who    resides  unmarried   with  her 
venerable  mother  in  New  York. 

SECOND  GENERATION  (p.    I  5  7). 

6.  v.  Nehemiah  Rogers  (son  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn., 
and  Elizabeth  Fitch),  b.  in  1755,  married  about  1781-82,  Catherine  Bell 
his  cousin  (dau.  of  Isaac  Bell,  of  Fredertcton,  N.  B.,  by  his  second  wife, 
Susannah  Smith  ;  they  were  also  the  parents  of  Capt.  Isaac  Bell,  Jr.,  a 
prominent  New  York  merchant,  Capt.  Isaac  Bell  has  now  (1885)  a  son, 
grandson,  and  great-grandson,  all  of  the  same  name,  still  residing  in  New 
York). 

Nehemiah  Rogers  was  a  gentleman  of  thorough  enterprise,  integrity, 
honor,  and  benevolence,  and  was  conspicuous  among  the  most  distin- 
guished of  the  old  New  v^rV  merchants  in  the  early  part  of  this  century. 
He  d.  Sept.  20,  1849,  aged  ninety-four.  She  d.  Jan.  17,  1863,  aged  ninety- 
three. 

THIRp    GENERATION    CHILDREN. 

83.  i.   Samuel  Rogers,  b.  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  S.,  in  1788,  d.  in 

New  York  City,  unmarried,  Dec,  1868,  aged  seventy-eight.  A 
merchant  in  the  early  part  of  his  life. 

84.  ii.  Edward    Nehemiah  Rogers,    b.    in    1790,   d,    unmarried, 

Nov.,  1857,  aged  sixty-seven. 

85.  iii.  George  Isaac  Rogers,  b.  in    1800,  in   New  York,  was  a 
commission    mere 
aged  seventy-six. 

86.  iv.  Archibald  Gracie  Rogers,  b.  in  1803,  resides,  unmarried, 
(1885)  in  New  York,  aged  eighty-two. 

87.  v.  Henry  Rogers,  b.  in  1S05,  m.  Matilda  (dau.  of  John  Swift 

Livingston,  of  Tivoli,  N.  Y.).  He  d.  June  20,  1840.  His  widow 
still  resides  in  this  city.      She  has  had  two  children  : 

88.  (1)  Matilda  Rogers,  who   m.   Albert    Speyers,  of  the  Duchy 

of  Alsace,  Germany.  He  d.  at  his  country  seat  in  New  Jersey 
(when  not  stated). 

89.  (2)    Henry    Livingston    Rogers.     He  resides  unmarried  in 
New  York,  and  is  a  member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange. 

90.  vi.   Car-Oline  Rogers  (dau.  of  Nehemiah  Rogers  and  Catharine 

Bell),  b.  in  1807  ;  m.,  in  1855,  Rev.  John  Crat.horne  Mont- 
gomery, of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  b.  in  1797  (son  of  John  Mont- 
gomery and  Mary,  dau.  of  Joseph  Crathorne,  of  Philadelphia). 
Pie  d.  Aug.  5,  1867.  aged  seventy-four  ;  he  was  grad.  at  Prince- 
ton College  ;  he  was  father,  by  a  previous  marriage,  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Plenry  Eglinton  Montgomery,  of  Philadelphia. 

Nehemiah  Rogers,  Esq.,  was  one  of  the  early  mayors  of  the  city  of 
St.  John,  N.  B.,  and  a  member  of  the  first  vestry  of  Trinity  Church  in  that 


18S5.]  Rogers  Lineage,  8 1 

place,  in  1791,  as  his  brother  Fitch  was  also  a  warden  in  it,  at  the  same 
time.  The  two  brothers  were  among  the  original  grantees  of  St.  John,  in 
17S3.  Nehemiah  was  also  a  lieutenant  in  a  loyalist  corps  in  St.  John, 
whose  title  is  unknown.  St.  John  was  settled  at  the  close  of  the  American 
Revolution,  and  chiefly  by  loyalists  from  the  New  England  States, 
and  received  a  city  charter  in  17S5.  It  has  now,  in  1SS5,  at  the  close 
of  a  century,  a  growing,  energetic  population  of  some  sixty  thousand 
souls. 

The  old  parish  records  of  Trinity  Church  in  St.  John  were  burned  some 
years  ago.  The  first  rector  of  that  church  was  Rev.  Mr.  Byles,  and  his 
successors  were,  down  to  the  present  rector  inclusive,  in  their  order  as  fol- 
lows, viz.:  Revs.  Messrs.  Pidgeon,  Williams,  Gray,  Gray,  Hill,  and  Brig- 
stocke. 

It  was  in  1792  that  Nehemiah  Rogers  returned  to  New  York  City  to 
reside  ;  and  he  founded  there,  ere  long,  the  well-known  house  of  Rogers 
&  Aspinwall. 

SECOND    GENERATION    (p.    15  7). 

7.  vi.  Esther  Rogers  (dam  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  Conn., 
and  Elizabeth  Fitch),  b.  about  1760  ;  m.,  about  17S4,  Archibald  Grade,  a 
Scotch  merchant  in  New  York,  of  great  enterprise  and  large  wealth,  and 
of  a  most  generous  and  benevolent  spirit,  lie  was  b.  in  Dumfries,  Scot- 
land, June  25,  1755,  an^  c^-  m  ^sTew  York  City,  aged  seventy-three,  April 
11,  1829.  He  was  son  of  William  Grade,*  who  was  b.  in  1728,  and  d.  in 
Dumfries,  April  16,  1778.  Mrs.  Esther  Rogers  Grade  d.  Nov.  5,  1833, 
aged  about  seventy-three. 

THIRD    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

91.  i.   Margaret   Gracie,  b.  July   13,    17S6.     Her  history  is  not 

known  to  the  writer. 

92.  ii.   William  Gracie,  b.  Nov.  28,  17S7.     He  m.,  without  issue, 

Eliza  Wolcott,    and,    for   second   wife,   Cornelia   Fleming,    by 
whom  he  had  a  daughter  : 

93.  1.  Mary  Gracie,  b.  (date  of  birth  not  given);  who  m.  Charles 

N.  Tuckerman. 

94.  iii.   Elizabeth   Gracie,   b.   Sept.    6,    1789;  who   m.    President 

Charles  King,  of  Columbia  College,  New  York. 

95.  iv.   Sarah  Rogers  Gracie,  b.  Dec.  14,  1791  ;  m.  Hon.  James 

Gore  King. 

96.  v.  Mary  Morison  Gracie,  b.  Sept.  28,  1793.     Her  history  is 

unknown  to  the  writer. 

97.  vi.  Archibald  Gracie,  Jr.,  b.  Dec.  17,  1795. 

98.  vii.   Robert  Gracie,  b.  Aug.  13.  1799.     He  m.  Susan  Nelson, 

and,  for  a  second  wife,  a  ALiss  Fleming,  and  had  a  son,  named — 

*  William  Grade,  of  Dumfries,  Scotland,  had  nine  children,  viz.: 

1.  Elizabeth  Gracie,  b.  Oct.  9,  1753. 

2.  Archibald  Gracie,  b.  June  25,  1755. 

3.  Mary  Gracie,  b.  May  12,  1757. 

4.  Janet  Gracie,  b.  Aug.  15,  1759. 

5.  Robert  Gracie,  b.  July  5,  1761. 

6.  William  Gracie,  b.  Eeb.  12,  1764  ;  d.  soon. 

7.  William  Gracie,  2d,  b.  Oct.  12,  1766. 

8.  Samuel  Gracie,  b.  April  15,  1768  ;  d.  young. 

9.  Margaret  Gracie,  b.  Jan.  15,  1773  ;  d.  young. 


82  Rogers  Lineage.  [April, 

99..  1.  Archibald  Gracie,  4th,  who  m.  a  Miss  Dashmond,  and, 
for  a  second  wife,  Sarah  Gibbs. 

100.  viii.   Esther  Gracie,  b.  May  5,  1801  ;  who  m.  Hon.  William 

Beach  Lawrence. 

94.  iii.  Elizabeth  Gracie,  b.  Sept.  6,  1789  (dan.  of  Archibald  Gracie, 
of  New  York,  and  Esther  Rogers);  m.,  March  16,  17S9,  President  Charles 
King,  LL.D.  (son  of  Hon.  Rtifus  King,  United  States  Minister  to  Great 
Britain),  educated  at  Harrow  School,  in  England,  and  in  Paris,  France, 
while  his  father  was  Minister  to  Great  Britain.  He  served  afterward  in 
the  noted  banking  house  of  Hope  &  Co.,  of  Amsterdam,  Holland,  and 
entered  for  a  time  into  mercantile  business  with  his  uncle,  Archibald 
Gracie,  Esq.,  in  New  York  (1810-14),  and  served  for  a  time  (1S14)  in  the 
war  then  pending  with  England.  Pie  became  for  several  years  (1823-27) 
part  editor  of  The  New  York  American,  and  for  a  longer  term  of  years 
afterward  (1827-47)  sole  editor  of  it,  and  President  of  Columbia  College, 
New  York  (1S49-64).  He  published  many  addresses.  He  d.  at  Frascati, 
Italy,  Sept.  27,  1S67. 

FOURTH    GENERATION,    CHILDREN.^ 

101.  :.  Eliza  King,  who  m,  Charles  H.  Halsey. 
T02.  ii.   Hetty  King,  who  m.  James  G.  Martin. 

103.  iii.  General  Rufus  King,  b.  Jan.  26,  1S14;  grad.  at  United 
States  Military  Academy,  and  was  appointed  Brevet:  Second 
Lieutenant  Engineers,  July  1,  1833.  This  office  he  resigned,  in 
1836,  and  was,  for  two  years  or  more,  Assistant  Engineer  on  the 
Erie  Railroad,  and  for  four  years  (1839-43)  Adjutant-General 
of  the  State  of  New  York.  He  was  also  for  several  years  asso- 
ciate editor  of  the  Albany  Evening  Journal  (1839-45),  and 
afterward  sole  editor  of  the  Milwaukee  Sentinel  (1845-61). 
He  was  appointed,  in  i860,  United  States  Minister  to  Rome, 
Italy;  but  early  in  186 1,  on  the  breaking  out  of  civil  war  in 
America,  he  offered  his  services  to  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment; and,  in  May,  1S61,  he  was  appointed  Brigadier- General 
of  Volunteers,  and  served  as  such  (May,  1861,  to  Oct.,  1863), 
performing  military  duty  chiefly  in  various  parts  of  Virginia, 
and  then  resigning  military  life,  resumed  his  services  as  United 
States  Minister  at  Rome  again.  Pie  m.  Ellen  Elliott,  and, 
for  second  wife,  her  sister,  Susan  Elliott.  Pie  d.  Oct.  13, 
1876. 

104.  iv.  William  Gracie  King  (son  of  President  Charles  King,  of 
Columbia  College),  b.  at  Paris,  France,  Oct.  4,  1816.  He  m. 
Adaline  McKee.  His  father  was  connected,  at  the  time  of  his 
birth,  with  the  American  Legation  at  Paris.  He  was  for  some 
years  one  of  the  Port  Wardens  of  New  York.      He  was  a  man 

*  of  large  reading,  and  of  fine  literary  tastes,  and  of  superior 
social  qualities,  and  extensive  travel.  Pie  had,  at  any  time,  but 
delicate  health,  and  was,  in  fact,  an  invalid  for  several  years  be- 
fore his  death,  which  occurred  suddenly,  June  8,  1882,  at  Eliza- 
beth, N.  J.,  aged  sixty-five.  He  left  surviving  him  a  son  and 
two  daughters,  viz.:  (1)  Rufus  King,  (2)  Mrs.  Charles  Clarke, 
(3)  Mrs.  Beverley  Robinson.      He  was  buried  at  Jamaica,  L.  I. 


1885.]  Rogers  Lineage.  83 

105.  v.  Alice  King  (clan,  of  President  Charles  King),  m.  Andrew 
B.  Paterson. 

106.  vi.   Emily  King,  whom.  Stephen  V.  R.  Paterson. 

THIRL)    GENERATION. 

95.  iv.  Sarah  Rogers  Gracie  (dau.  of  Archibald  Gracie,  of  New  York, 
and  Esther  Rogers),  b.  Dec.  14,  1  791,  m.  Hon.  James  Gore  King,  b.  May 
8,  1  791  (son  of  Hon.  Rufus  King,  LL.D.,  and  Mary  Alsop,  dau.  of  John 
Alsop).  He  was  grad.  at  Harvard  College,  in  1S10,  and  studied  law.  He 
was  a  prominent  New  York  merchant,  and  Member  of  Congress  from  New 
Jersey  (1849-51).  He  d.  at  Highwood,  N.  J.,  Oct.  3,  1853,  agec'  sixty  two. 
She  d.  at  Weehawken,  N.  J.,  Nov.  3,  1S78,  aged  eighty-six.  [The  father  of 
Rufus  King  and  grandfather  of  James  Gore  King,  was  Richard  King,  who 
was  grad.  at  Harvard  College,  in  1  7 7 75  and  studied  law  under  Theophilus 
Parsons  at  Newburyport,  Me.,  and  was  a  prosperous  merchant  in  Maine. 
Rufus  King,  b.  March  24,  1755,  removed  from  Massachusetts  to  New  York 
for  his  residence,  in  1788,  where,  two  years  previously,  he  had  married  his 
wife  Mary,  and  was,  in  1789,  elected  with  General  Schuyler  one  of  the  first 
two  United  States  Senators  for  New  York,  under  the  then  newly  established 
constitution.  In  1796  he  was  appointed  Minister  to  England  by  George 
Washington,  the  duties  of  which  station  he  performed  for  eight  years,  and 
rendered  services  of  great  u.Lilhv,  ^n,  and  value,  for  his  native  land,  in 
those  early  and  critical  stages  of  its  national  history.  He  returned  to 
America  in  1804,  and  settled  quietly  on  a  farm  at  Jamaica,  L.  J.,  where, 
after  being  alternately  in  and  out  of  several  public  offices  o(  the  highest  im- 
portance and  dignity  successively,  he  d.  full  of  usefulness  and  honor,  April 
29,  1827,  aged  seventy-two]. 

FOURTH    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

107.  i.  Caroline  King,  who  m.  Denning  Duer  (son  of  Hon,  Will- 
iam Alexander  Duer,  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  New  York, 
and  President  of  Columbia  College,  New  York.) 

108.  ii.   Harriet  King,  who  m.  Dr.  George  Wilkes.. 

109.  iii.  James  Gore  King,  who  m.  his  cousin  Caroline  King,  dau. 
of  Governor  John  Alsop  King,  Member  of  Congress,  of  New 
York.  These  three  brothers,  President  Charles  King,  Gover- 
nor John  Alsop  King,  and  Hon.  James  Gore  King,  all  sons  of 
Hon.  Rufus  King,  of  Jamaica,  L.  I.  (elected  at  four  different 
times  United  States  Senator,  and  twice  sent  as  United  States 
Minister  to  Great  Britain,  first  by  Washington  and  again  by 
John  Adams),  each  maintained  grandly  for  himself  the  family 
name  in  high  honor,  and  all  unitedly  in  the  civil  service  of  their 
country. 

no.  iv.  Archibald  Gracie  King,  who  m.  Elizabeth  D.  Duer. 
in.   v.   Mary  King,  who  m.  Edgar  H.  Richards* 

112.  vi.  Frederica  King,  who  m.  Judge  J.  Bancroft  Davis,  of 
Washington,  D.  C. 

113.  vii.   Edward  King,  who  m.  Isabella  Cochrane. 

114.  viii.  Fanny  King,  who  m..  James  L.  McLane. 

third  generation. 
97.  vi.  Archibald  Gracie,  Jr.  (son  of  Archibald  Gracie  and  Esther 
Rogers),  b.  Dec.  17,  1795,  m.  Elizabeth  Bethune,  and  had  five  children. 


84  Rogers  Lineage.  [April, 

FOURTH    GENERATION,    CHILDREN. 

115.  i.  Archibald  Gracie,  who  rii.  a  wife,  Josephine  (family  name 
not  given). 

116.  ii.   Hetty  Gracie,  who  m.  Dayton  Ogden. 

117.  iii,  James  K.  Gracie,  who  m.  Anna  Bullock. 
11S.  iv.  Charles  Gracie. 

119.  v.  Margaret  Gracie,  who  m.  James  Higginson. 

THIRD    GENERATION. 

100,  viii.  Esther  Gracie  (dau.  of  Archibald  Gracie,  of  New  York,  and 
Esther  Rogers),  b.  May  5,  1S01.  m.  William  Beach  Lawrence,  b.  in  New 
York,  Oct.  23,  1S00  (son  of  Isaac  Lawrence,  of  New  York,  and  Cornelia 
A.  Beach,  dan.  of  Rev.  Abraham  Beach,  D.D.).  tie  was  grad.  at  Colum- 
bia College,  New  York,  in  1818.  He  studied  law  in  Europe,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  New  York  bar  in  1S23.  He  became,  in  1850,  a  resident  of 
Newport,  R.  I.,  and  in  1S51  he  became  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  State, 
and  afterward  acting  Governor  of  Rhode  Island. 

In  1872-73  he  was  appointed  Lecturer  on  International  Law  in  the 
Law  School  of  Columbian  College  in  Washington,  D.  C,  He  has  published 
several  works  on  law.  For  several  years  past  he  has  been  occupied  as 
advocate  in  cases  oi  international  claims  at  Washington. 

fourth  generation,  children. 

120.  i.  Beach  Lawrence,  who  d.  unmarried. 

121.  ii.  Isaac  Lawrence. 

122.  iii.   Hetty  Lawrence. 

123.  iv.   Gracie  Lawrence,  who  d.  unmarried. 

124.  v.   Gallatin  Lawrence. 

125.  vi.  Cornelia  Lawrence. 

126.  vii.  James  Gore  King  Lawrence. 


The  name  Uriah  Rogers,  would  be  an  odd  combination,  wherever 
found  in  a  family  history  ;  and  would  be  quite  sure  to  attract  the  attention 
of  an  expert  in  genealogical  matters,  and  would  seem  well  worthy  to  him 
to  be  watched  for  a  directive  significance  of  its  own  in  any  lines  of  local 
development  where  it  might  show  itself.  The  more  odd,  and  uncouth,  and 
even  barbarous,  sometimes,  combinations  of  names  are,  the  more  sure 
they  are  often  to  possess  a  tenacity  of  life  that  nothing  can  disturb.  They 
are  cherished  as  special  remembrancers  of  the  family,  at  special  times  and 
places  of  its  manifestation  in  days  gone  by  ;  and  the  more  odd,  uncouth, 
and  harsh  the  sound,  or  sense,  or  fancy  reached  in  the  combination 
adopted,  the  more  certain  it  is  to  live  with  cherished  fervor  of  enthusiasm, 
or  repetitious  zeal  for  its  adoption,  as  a  sort  of  family  ensign.  Very  small 
but  sure  proofs  of  identity  of  origin  in  family  names  and  family  relation- 
ship will  often  float  with  certainty,  and  in  a  marvellous  way,  from  place  to 
place,  and  from  one  family  to  another,  and  for  long  periods  of  time.  How 
effectually  and  of  how  many  persons  is  an  affinity  of  some  sort  in  the  past, 
somewhere,  with  Archibald  Gracie,  evidenced  by  their  Christian  name 
Archibald — Gracies,  Rogerses,  Winthrops,  Kings  ! 

The  model  of  the  articles  here  furnished  on  "  The  Rogers  Lineage  "' 
was  fashioned,  necessarily,  from  the  outset,  very  much  like  that  of  a  ship, 


1885.]  Rogers  Lineage.  85 

to  be  carried  on;  continuously,  from  a  very  rude  beginning  in  as  complete 
a  form  as  possible  to  the  finished  end.  The  keel  must  be  laid  and  the  hull 
bhiltj  piece  bj'  piece,  and  joint  by  joint,  and  all  the  parts,  however,  of  any 
vital  import  in  their  relations  rivetted  firmly  together,  and  made  into  one 
compact  whole,  day  by  day,  and  month  by  month,  and  year  by  year,  for 
two  or  three  years'  time  of  consecutive  thought.  Often,  under  a  long 
period  of  attention  to  its  claims,  little  progress  would,  after  all,  be  made. 
Contradictory  evidences,  aspects,  or  statements  would  appear  ;  readjust- 
ments must  be  made  of  ideas  and  traditions  and  supposed  facts  that  could 
be  brought  into  harmony  with  each  other,  on  some  adequate  basis  of  truth 
and  knowledge.  The  result  of  the  writer's  best  efforts  to  obtain  the  great- 
est amount  of  real  facts  procurable  in  this  interesting  held  of  research,  and 
at  no  one's  cost  but  his  own,  is  here  freely  presented  to  any  one  who 
desires  to  partake  of  the  results  obtained  either  for  his  advantage  or  his 
gratification. 

It  is  a  striking  manifestation  of  the  fact,  how  completely  a  family,  once 
conspicuous  in  a  given  community,  for  its  local  forms  and  features  of  nota- 
bility can  lose,  from  its  own  consciousness  and  from  the  public  eye,  every 
distinguishing  characteristic  of  its  once  easily  recognized -and  universally 
acknowledged  greatness  of  social  estimation.  The  writer  has  tried,  at 
different  times,  vigorously  but  in  vain,  to  find  some  all-revealing  clew,  from 
the  living  to  the  dead  of  other  days,  and  from  the  ever-busy  present  to  the 
great,  silent,  storied  past,  in  which  we  all  want  to  find  so  much  light  that 
we  yet  fail  to  obtain — and  especially  concerning  the  once  famous  Fitch 
family  of  Norwalk,  Conn.  He  wrote  recently  to  the  last  relic  of  the 
ancient  family  of  that  name,  whose  address  was  given  him,  as  belonging  to 
that  renowned  stock  and  well  stricken  in  years  and  resident  still  in  Nor- 
walk, and  able,  if  any  one  could  do  so,  to  answer  questions  on  points 
desired  concerning  its  early  history.     And  behold  the  answer  ! 

"Norwalk,  Conn.,  Feb.  3,  1885. 
"  Rev.  B.  W.  Dwight  : 

"  Dear  Sir  :  Your  letter,  written  to  Mr.  Daniel  Fitch,  of  Norwalk, 
some  time  since,  was  received,  and  should  have  been  answered  sooner  ; 
but  he  has  been  waiting,  thinking  that  he  might  possibly  gain  some  infor- 
mation that  would  be  of  service  to  you.  Mr.  Fitch  has  outlived  most  of  his 
early  associates  ;  and  those  who  could  once  have  answered  his  questions 
are  now  gone  from  earth.  In  Dr.  Hall's  '  History  of  Norwalk  '  we  find 
that  Mr.  Thomas  Fitch  had  a  wife  Hannah  ;  but  no  surname  is  given,  or 
date  of  marriage.  In  the  cemetery,  near  where  he  is  buried,  we  find,  on 
old  tombstones,  the  names  of  Giles  Fitch,  son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah 
Fitch,  who  d.  April,  1747,  aged  two  years;  and  of  Hannah,  their  daughter, 
who  d.  Aug.  24,  1744,  aged  seventeen.  We  read,  also,  on  other  stones, 
that  *  Thomas  Fitch,  Esq.,  d.  Jan.  16,  1798,  aged  seventy;  and  that  Sarah, 
wife  of  Thomas  Fitch,  d.  Jan.  24,  1795,  aged  sixty-one.'  From  Dr.  Hall's 
work  we  suppose  this  to  have  been  the  son  of  Governor  Fitch,  with  his 
wife.  On  the  same  row  of  stones  we  read  that  '  Esther  Fitch  d.  March 
12,  1 771,  aged  eighty,'  and  that  '  Ebenezer  Fitch  d.  Feb.  23,  1769,  aged 
eighty-three.'  Mrs.  Hannah  Fitch,  it  is  said,  '  d.  Aug.  r,  1769,  aged 
twenty-five.'  It  is  not  stated  whose  wife  she  was,  but  the  dates  given  show 
that  she  could  not  have  been  the  wife  of  Governor  Fitch,  or  the  mother  of 
Giles  and  Hannah  Fitch. 


' 


86  Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.   [April, 

"  This  information  may  be  of  little  service  to  you  ;  but  it  is  the  best  that 
we  can  give  ;  and  we  know  not  where  else  to  point  you  to  any  one,  who 
can  give  you  information  that  is  not  in  our  possession,  concerning  the  Fitch 
family  of  other  days. 

"  Mrs.  A.  N.  Fitch, 

"for  Daniel  Fitch." 

"Sic  transit  gloria  mundi."  So  soon  pass  out  of  human  sight  all  traces 
of  family  greatness  in  the  very  places  where  those,  who  bore  its  honors 
highest,  carved  their  names  the  deepest. 


RECORDS    OF   THE    FIRST    AND    SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  OF   THE  CITY  OF    NEW    YORK.— Marriages. 

1756    TO  . 

(Continued  from  Vol,  XVI.,  p.  41,  of  The  Record.) 

l8l  J. 

Townsend  Cock  to  Eliza  Cock. 
Daniel  Duncan  to  Margaret  Skinner, 
jonan  Anderson  to  Catharine  Harriot. 

Matthew  Cunningham  to  Eliza  Bertrand.  (44) 

Robert  Nesbit  to  Elizabeth  Webb. 
Ritter  Eongley  to  Catharine  Ann  Pusher. 
Etiene  Sance  to  Mary  Josephe  Ee  Roy. 
Thomas  Toole  to  Mary  Swan. 

Joseph  Hamilton  to  Elizabeth  Dyer  (widow  Jerome). 
Jeremiah  Cooper  to  Sarah  Brant. 
Samuel  Potter  to  Ann  Kiggan. 
12.  Isaac  B.  Strong  to  Mary  Oakley. 

David  Auchinvoie  to  Margaret  McDonald. 
Benjamin  Parshall  to  Mary  Hotts. 
James  Honeywell  to  Eliza  McCoy. 
Peter  Sartain  to  Lucretia  Redett  Leydick. 
Alexander  Burns  to  Ann  Derby. 

1812. 

John  Sheperd  Tynan  to  Mary  Sheperd  Eatimore.  (45) 

John  Lawson  to  Christiana  Wilson  (widow  Dick). 

Samuel  Brewer  to  Elizabeth  Titus. 

John  Forsdick  to  Ruth  Youngs  Wheeler. 

John  Steen  to  Eucinda  Mack. 

Duncan  Strong  to  Mary  Harris. 

Benjamin  Richardson  to  Catharine  Hurlbutt. 

Thomas  Burnside  to  Sarah  McCulloch  (widow  Davidson). 
26.  John  Ritchie  to  Gitty  Hoagland. 

John  Jones  to  Ann  Houston. 

Edward  Copeland  to  Mary  Thompson. 

William  E.  Eee  to  Susan  Smith. 

Jesse  Crary  to  Catharine  Burrows. 

John  Covert  to  Sarah  Fairchild. 

Gardiner  G.  Howland  to  Eouisa  Edgar. 
26.  John  Mofritt  to  Jane  Eeonard  (widow  Martine). 


Octr 

2. 

Octr 

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Octr 

10. 

Octr 

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Oct' 

23- 

Oct' 

26. 

Novr 

2. 

Nov7 

2. 

Novr 

3- 

Novr 

5- 

Novr 

8. 

Novr 

12. 

Novr 

I3- 

Novr 

16. 

Novr 

21. 

Dec1 

8. 

Decr 

I3- 

]an>' 

23- 

Jany 

23- 

Feby 

15- 

March 

26. 

April 

23- 

May 

3- 

May 

7- 

June 

18. 

Tuly 

26. 

Octr 

*3- 

Octr 

24. 

Nov' 

1. 

Nov' 

29. 

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1. 

Dec/ 

14. 

Dec1 

26. 

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37 


RECORDS  OF    THE    REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH    IN   THE 
CITY   OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVI.,  p.  39,  of  The  Record.) 
A*   1 70S.  OUDERS.  KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

[3"] 

February  10.   Hendricus  Koerte,  Christina.       Abraham  Keteltas,  Chris- 
Elizabeth    de  tina  Wessels. 
Riemen. 
dito  15.            Frans  Garbranlze,  Louwerens.    Adriaan  Hooglant,  Anna- 
Elizabeth    We  s-  tje  Byvank,  s.  h.  vrcu. 
seise. 
Jan     Cure,     Gerretje  Belitj^.            Eduard    Klerk,    Annetje 
CozVn.                                                     Jans. 
dito  18.            Abraham  Mezier,  Eli-  Elizabeth.       Johannes     Kouwenhove, 
zabeth  Couwenho-                              Annatje  Kouwenhove, 
ve.                                                          h.  v.  van   Jacob  Kou- 
wenhove. 
E 1  i  a  s    Brevoort,  Margrietje.     Hendrik  Brevoort  Janne- 
Grietje  Hamman.                                 tje  Shamman. 
dito  25.            Petnis  Bey  aid,  Rachel  Hendrikus.    Dom:  Gualtherus  Dubois 
Van  Baal,                                              en    Isaak    de    Peister, 

Helena   Van    Baal, .  h. 
v.  van  D°  Dubois. 
Hendrik  Kordes,  Iza- Hendrikus.     Jacob    Kip,    Antje    Cou- 


dito  29. 


Maert  5. 
dito  7. 


dito  10. 


dito 


bel  Gent. 
Johannis    Rykman,  Maria. 
Catharina  Kip. 

Gerret  de  Boog,  Eli-  Jan. 

zabeth  Stilheer. 
Isaak     Gouverneur,  Samuel. 

Sara  Staats. 
Adriaan    Provoost,  Adriaan. 

Antje  Asweres. 
Gerret   Harsing.   En-  Aaltje. 

geltje  Burgers. 
Willem  Egt,  Marretje  Immetje. 

van  Dyk. 
Gerret    Onkel  bag,  Elizabeth. 

Elizabeth    Van 

Schaik. 
Frans  Reierse,  Janne-  Marte. 

tje  Dy. 
Samuel  Philipz,  Aal-  Richard. 

tje  Dame. 
Wessel  Van  Xorden,  Maria. 

Jaquemyntje  Kou- 
wenhove. 
*den  Slave  van  Capt.  Willem. 

Davidt  Provoost. 
Willem  Ha  mm  on,  Magdalena.    Mathys    Beckholt,    Mag 

Maritje  Walgraaf.  dalena,  s.  h.  vrouw. 

*  The  slave  of  Capt.  David  Provoost. 


wen  hove. 

Dirk  Hooglant,  Har ma- 
il us  Rykman,  Maria 
Hooglant. 

Jan  Van  der  Meule,  Fra- 
neyntje  Stilheer. 

Barent  Reinders,  Mar- 
greta  Selynes. 

Aswerus  Hendrikse,  Eli- 
zabeth Kierstede. 

Jacob  Harsing,  Elizabeth 
Burgers. 

Andries  Marschalk,  Im- 
metje de  Vries. 

Pieter  de  Groot,  en  Be- 
litje  s.  h.  vroii. 

Jores  Reierse,  Marretje 
Turk. 

Nicolaas  Day  ley  Martha 
Simson. 

Pieter  Kouwenhove,  An- 
tje Van  Vorst. 

Op    belydenisse    des   ge- 

loofs. 


A' 


Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.       [April, 


70S. 


Ma  art  24. 


dito  28. 


April  1 1, 


dito  1 8, 


May  2. 


dito  9. 
dito  13. 

dito  16. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Corn  el  us   Jooste,  Kristina.         Isaac  de  Mill,  Judith    & 
Catharina  de  Hart.  Wey,   buys  v.  van  Joor. 

Jooste. 
Abraham    Van    Dyk,  Wilhelmus.     Cornelus  Van  Duyn,  An- 


Elizabeth  Huyke. 

Arie  Koning,  Rachel  Johannes. 

Peek. 
Jacob  Ten  Yk,  Neel-  Aafie. 

tje  Hartenberg. 
I.  de  Myer,  Ann  a  tje  Anna. 

Ravestein. 
Evert    Pels,    Grietje  Abraham. 

Melcherts. 
Frans   La  n  get,  Mari-  Rachel. 

tje  Van  Schaak. 
D°    Giialtherus    Dii-  Johannes. 

bois,    Helena  Van 

Baal. 

T  h  e  o  p  h  i  1 11  s  Elze-  Nicolaas. 

warth,  Sara  Marius. 
Francois  Dufenne,  Susanna. 

Anna  Margreta 

Blank. 
Jan   Van    der   Meer,  Elizabeth. 

Elizabeth  Hoist. 
John    Visieiij    Anna  Anna. 

Resen. 
Albartus     Coenradus  Joseph. 

Bosch,  Maria  Jeets. 


Jacob     Salomonse,  Samuel. 

Elizabeth  Dee. 
Harmanus  Ruthgers,  Harman. 

Catharina  Myers. 


netje  Huyke. 

Jan  Peek,  Senr.,  Marretje 

Koning,  Wed®. 
Dirk  Ten  Yk,  AefjeBoele, 

s.  h.  vrou. 
Evert    Duyking,    Antje 

Sebring. 
Abraham  Aalsteyn,  Tryn- 

tje  Aalsteyn. 
Abram  Boke,  Antje  Cros. 

Isaak  de  Peister,  Clos 
Toller,  Rachel  Van 
Baal,  h.  v.  van  Petrus 
Beiard. 

Joris  Elzewarth,  Ariaan- 
tje,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Harme  Bensen,  Aeltje, 
s.  h.  vrou. 

CorneKis  Van  der  Meer, 

Sara  Hibon. 
Jannetje  Revard,  Wed. 

Gerret  Van  Hoorn,  Gees- 

ken    Anna   B r u y n s, 

h  u  y  s  v.  van   J  u  r  i  a  n 

Bosch. 
Barnardus  Janse,  Teuntje 

Janse. 
Abraham  Provoost,  Elsje 

Rtitggers,  h.  v.  van  Da 

Schuyler. 
Evert  Van  Hoek,  Neeltje 

Jacobz,  s.  h.  v. 


Pieter   Jacobse,    Re-  Annatje. 

becka  Jans. 
Jesse  Kip,  Maria  Ste-  Jesse,  gebo-  Dirk    Hooglant,    Maria 

vens.  ren  30  Jan-  Kip,  s.  h.  v. 

uary. 
Thomas    Sanderse,  Maritje. 

Aaltje  Santvoort. 
Theiinis  Tibout,  Ma-  Albartus. 

ritje  Vande  Water. 
Jan  Alderon,  Come-  Willem. 

lia  Van  Tienhoven. 
Francois  Ravo,    Ma-  Margreta. 

ria  Huybart. 


Abraham  Zantvoort,  Ma- 
ry tje  Sanders. 

Johannis  Van  de  Water, 
Jannetje  Oblines. 

Adriaan  Man,  Hester,  s. 
huys  vrou. 

Daniel  Ravo,  Hester  Gal- 
lard. 


;SS5. 


Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 


A9  1708. 


dito  30, 

[3i4] 

May  30, 


Juny  4. 
dito  20. 


dito  11 


dito  18. 


dito  21. 
dito  25. 

dito  28. 


OUDERS. 

An  dries  Marschalk, 
Elizabeth  Van  Gel- 
der. 

Mathys  Low,  Janne- 
tje  Van  Heinigen. 

Wynant  Van  Zant, 
Marytje  Praa. 

Cornelus  Klopper, 
Aefje  Luykas. 

Samuel  Kip,  Mar- 
grietje  Rykman. 

Jacob  Franse,  Antje 
Tomhaal. 

Meindert  Burger,  Sa- 
ra Yedese. 

Isaak  de  Eiemer,  An- 
tje Woertman. 

A  b  r  a  h  a  m  Yreden- 
burg,  Jezabel  Per- 
se). 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Aal- 
tje  Kernier. 

Jacobus  Beiard,  Hil- 
legond  de  Kay. 

Justes  Bosch,  Anne- 
tje  Smith. 

Fredrik  Willemse, 
Maritje  Waldron. 

Johannes  Beekman, 
Aaltje  Thomas. 

Johannes  de  Lamon- 
tanje  Sara  Parsel. 

Gerret  Hyer,  Sara 
Bos. 

Barent  Hibon,  Sara 
Ennes. 


Cathalina  Yedesse.  Jan  Peek. 


Abraham  Van  Gelder,  Isaac. 
Catlyntje  Post. 

Daniel    Oderde,  Jan. 
Martha  Joufray. 


KINDER.-^. 

GETUYGEN. 

Isaac. 

Johannis     Van     Gelder, 

Hester  Romen. 

Abraham. 

Johannes  Van   Heinigen, 

Margrietje   Low,   h.    v. 

van  Cornelis  Low. 

Pieterpra. 

Pieter  Pra.  Marytje,  s.  h. 

vrou. 

Margrietje. 

Jacobus  Goelet,  Elizabeth 

Berrie. 

Albartus. 

Abrah:   Kip,  &   Pieter 

Rykman,  Neeltje,  de  h. 

v.  van  Albert  Rykman. 

Frans. 

Frans    Franse,     Susanna 

Franse. 

Jannetje. 

The  un  is  Yedesse  & 

Abrah.     Mol,     Senior, 

Theuntje  Van   Gelder. 

Isaac. 

Cap1.    Isaac    de   Riemer, 

Maria  Gouverneur. 

Abraham. 

Johannes  Montanje,  An- 

natje  Vredenburg. 

Elizabeth. 

Samsen   Bensen,   Helena 

Burgers. 

Helena. 

Abraham  Wendel,  Llelena 

de  Kay,  ^Vede. 

Anneke. 

Kasparus  Bosch,  Marica 

Santvoort,  h.  v.  v.  Will. 

Walton. 

Jan. 

Jozeph    W'aldron,    Eliza- 

beth Montanje. 

Rachel. 

ChristorTel  Beekman,  Ra- 

chel Thomasse   &  Ma- 

rytje Lanoy. 

Sara. 

Jan'de   Lamontanje,  An- 

netje  de  Lamontanje. 

Catharina. 

Pieter  Bos,  Dorathe  Hyer. 

Catharina. 

Jan    Hibon,    Jongm.,    & 

Coenraat  ten  Yk,  Senir. 

Rachel  Hibon,  Jongdr. 
Abraham  de  Lammontan- 

je  &  Theunis  Ydesse, 

Maritje  Hennejon. 
Lodewyk  Post  &  Andries 

Marschalk,   Ammaren- 

cia  Van  Gelder. 
Pieter  Rolang,   Margreta 

Pelduye 


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A°  1 70S. 
Augustus  i. 

dito  4. 


dito. 

[3i5] 

Augustu 

dito  11. 


OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

Samuel    Thahaan,  Samuel. 
Neeltje  Gerrets. 

Pieter  Liiykasse,  Ma-  Susanna, 
ria  Willemse. 

Jan  Tavou,    Maria  Maria. 
Dublett. 

Johannes    de   Freest,  Elizabeth. 
Try  n  tj  e     Rave- 
stein. 

Isaac    Stoutenburg,  Hanna. 
Neeltje    Uytenbo- 


22. 


25- 


29. 


Septemb.  3, 
5- 


Johannes  Hooglant, 
Jannetje  Andriese. 

Cornelus  Louw,  Mar- 
gretje  Van  Bossen. 

Daniel  Lo  u  r  en  c  e, 
O^esie  Ydesse. 

Pieter  Anient,  Eliza- 
beth Van  Thienho- 
ven. 

Nicolaas  Dayley,  Eli- 
zabeth Cregiers. 

Jacobus  Kip,  Catha- 
lina  de  Hart. 

Susanna  Van  Tienho- 
ven. 

Abraham  Messelaar, 
Angenietje  Staats. 

Jan  Lorang,  Maria 
Onoro. 

Symon  Klaase,  Tryn- 
tje  Gerrets. 

Pieter  Chaegneau, 
Aaltje  Smith. 

Thomas  Van  Steen- 
berg,  Mary  Salo- 
mon! Messelaar. 

Theophilus  Pels,  Eli- 
zabeth Blauvelt. 

Jozeph  Oldfield, 
Martha  Gracet. 

Jan    Pouwelse,  Antje 

Huvsman. 
Johannes  Van  Heini- 

ge,  Marytje   Elles. 
Louwerens     Kiinne, 

Catharina  Hen- 

driks. 


>ara. 


GETUYGEN, 

Jacobus  Cozynse,  Marica 

Schoute. 
Jacob    Franse,    Margriet 

Franse. 
Elizabeth  Garuj'e. 

JohannesVan  der  Spiegel, 
Tryntje  Van  Rollegom. 

Samuel  Staats,  Catharina 
Van  Bragh. 


Charles  Cromlyn  Annatje 
Hooglant. 


Abraham. 

Adolf   de   Groef,   Grietje 

Van  Thuyl,  Wed. 

Elizabeth. 

Willem  Walton,  Theuntje 

Van  Gelder. 

Elizabeth. 

Joost  Soy,  &  Sara,  s.  huys 

vrou. 

Anna. 

Nathan   Dayley,  Susanna 

Koek. 

Jacobus. 

Abraham  Kip,  Maria  Kip. 

Jan. 

Joost   Soij,  Cornelia  Van 

Thienhove. 

Geertriiy. 

Jan  Staats,  Neeltje  Bou- 

man. 

Jan. 

Andere  Lorang,  Jannetje 

Kintor. 

Aefje. 

Jan  Van  der  Meer,  Anne- 

tje  Hendriks. 

Pieter. 

Justus  Bosch,  Hanna  Van 

Hoek. 

Johanna.*]; 

Cornelus    Van    Exveen, 

, 

Sara  Hardenbroek. 

Bregje.  Abraham  Aalsteyn,  Anne- 

tje  Langestraat. 
Hester,  ge-  Augustus  Gresset,  Hester 
A°    170  7,       Kenaud. 
den  9  Octr. 
Annatje.         Nathan  Bayley,   Marytje 

Huysman. 
Jenneke.         Jacob     Cornelisse,    Sara 

Paers. 
Adriaan.         Burger  Hendrikse,  Engel- 

tje  Hendriks. 


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i5- 


Septemb:  19. 

22. 

26. 


29. 

Oktob:3. 
Oktob:  10. 


17. 


20. 


24> 


27. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Louvies  Anthony  Nie-  Marytje. 

wenhuyse,    A  ef  j  e 

Van  Bossen. 
Jan  Berres,  Jannetje  Johannes. 

Nessepat. 
Johannes   Van  Brug,  Davidt. 

Margrita  Provoost. 


Johannes  S  1  e  g  t, 

•Catharina  Berge. 
Gerret    Van    Laar, 

Jannetje  Streddels. 
Cornel  us  Janse,  Met- 

tje  de  voor. 
Theunis  Van  Vegte, 

Annetje  Heermans. 
Hendrik  Claase,Kuy- 

per,  Jannetje  Ver- 

kerko 
Mi  c  h  i  e  1  d  e   Grae, 

Catharina  Laforse. 
Filip  Menthorne,  Hil- 

legondt  Webbers. 
Daniel  Liewis,  Geesje 

Bajon. 
Jacobus  Quik,  Mari- 

tje  Smith. 
Johannes     Triphage, 

Aagje  Winne. 
Deneys  Woertman, 

Margrietje  B  e  e  k- 

man. 
Hendrikus  ten  Broek, 

Tryntje  Rommen. 
Jasper  Hoed,  Tryntje 

Luykas. 
Abr.  Gaasbeek  Cham- 

mers,  Zara  Beiard. 
Walter  Hver,  Annatje 

Blorn.  ' 


Jacob. 
Gerard  lis. 
Mettje. 
Egbert. 
Claas. 

Charel. 

Sara. 

Hendrikus. 

Abigail. 

Alida. 

Antje. 

Jannetje. 
Luykas. 
Anna  Maria. 
Arent. 


GETUYGEN. 

Willem  Krom,  Femmetjc 
Mildrom. 

Pieter  Burger  &  Catha- 
rina, s:  huvs  vrou. 

Hendrik  Renselaa  r, 
Catharina  Van  de  Wa- 
ter. 

Sara  Berge. 


Hans  Berge 


3i- 


Anthony  Ruthgers,  Catharina. 

Hendrikje   Van  de 

Water. 
Sybrant  Brouwer,  Sa-  Aarnout. 

ra  Webber. 
Johannes    Pouwelse,  Isaac.       ) 
Elizabeth  Van  de  Wa-  Jacobus.  V 
ter.  ) 

Jafpies  Fontein,  An-  Catharina. 

neke  Webbers. 


Jan  Breestede,  Anna  Ala- 
ry tje  Brestede. 

Jan  Van  der  Meer,  Mar- 
greta  de  Yoor. 

N  i  c  o  1  a  a  s  Somerendyk, 
Elsje  Heermans,  Wedc. 

Cornelus  Claase,  Annetje 
Cornelus,  h:  v:  v:  Jo- 
hannes Turk. 

Jan  Meserol,  Barber  Me- 
serol,  J°.  dochter. 

Johannes  Van  der  Spiegel, 
&  Marritje,  s.  h.  vrou. 

John  Tibbies,  Susanna 
Bedlo. 

Theunis  Quik,  Jannetje 
Marschall. 

Willem  Triphage,  Helena 
Burhans,  J°.  dochter. 

Jaques  Fontein,  Antje 
Riemer. 

Cornelus  Romme,  Maritje 
Romme,  syn  moeder. 

Cornelus  Klopper  &  Aaf- 
je,  s:  h:  vrou. 

Coli:  Nicolaas  Beiard, 
Catharina  Kip. 

Gerret  de  Graw,  Aaltje 
Blom,  h.  v.  van  Jan 
Faster. 

Davidt  Schuyler,  Catha- 
rina Ruthgers. 

Willem  Brouwer,  Rachel 

Webber. 
Jozeph  Waldrom,  Baefje 

Sippe,    Jan    Danielse, 

Aefje  Ringo. 
Jacobus  Van  der  Spiegel 
&  Annatje  S.  h.  vrou. 


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dit    00k    den 
27  dito  be- 
Hoorden    1 
lyn  hoger.* 

3i. 


Novemb:  3. 

[3i7] 
dito. 


OUDERS. 

Abram  Van   Deiirse, 
Lucretia  Bogardus. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Anneke.  Everardiis    Bogardus, 

Catharina  Tiele,  Wede. 


7. 


17. 
21. 
24. 


28. 

Decemb:  i, 


Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Abraham. 

Catharina  Myer. 
Barent  Reinders,Hes-  Ester. 

ter  Leislaar. 
Joost  ] 'aiding,  Catha-  Joost. 

rina  Duyts. 
Gloud  Bissonet,  Jan- 

netje  Jodong. 
James    Perot,    Maria 

Cousson. 


Janneke. 
Johanna. 
Maritje. 

Elizabeth. 


Hendrey  de   Money,  Maria. 
Marianna  Grosset. 

Abraham  Van  Hoorn, 
Maria  Provoost. 

Leonard  Leuwis,  Eli- 
zabeth 'Hartenben*. 

o 

Harme    Van    Hoese, 

Geesje   Heermans. 
Josua  Bosch,  Willera- 

pie  de  Groot. 
Joseph  Waldron,  An-  Joseph. 

netje  Woedert. 
JanWilleks,  Margreta  Maritje. 

Dow. 
Robbert  Bensen,  Cor-  Elizabeth. 

nelia  Roos. 
Stefamis  Boekenhove,  Stefanus. 

Hanna  Hoist. 
Johannes   Van    Nor-  Josyntje. 

den,  Hendrikje  ten 

Yk. 
Wander  Didrikz,  Aal-  Jacob. 

tje  Gerrets. 
Jan  Sip,  Johanna  Van  Lena. 

Vorst. 
Elias    Ellessen,   Sara  Jenneke. 

Peers. 
Klaas  Bogert,  Grietje  Belitje. 

Concelje. 


Hendrikus     Kermer,  Anna. 
Jaquemyntje  Rave- 
stein. 

*  This  should  be  entered  on  the  27'h,  one  line  higher. 


A  b  r  ah  a  m  Van  Hoorn, 

Vrouwtje  Santvoort. 
A  b  r  a  h  a  m  Gouverneur, 

Susanna  de  Kleyn. 
Johannes    Hardenbroek, 

An  netje  Bos,s.h.vrou\v. 
Daniel  Jo-  Daniel  Ravow,  Elizabeth 

dong.  Lamoreu. 

Philip,  gebo-  Maria  Perot. 
ren  den  20 
Octr. 

Augustus  Grosset,   Maria 
•     Susanna  Thavet. 
Abraham  Santvoort, 

Vrouwtje,    s.  h.  vrouw. 
Jan   Waldron,   &   Geesje 

Leuwis,  Jond   dochter. 
Gysbert  Wynantze,  Antje 

Heermans. 
Abram  Brajor,  Elizabeth, 

s.  h\  vrouw. 
Jan     Waldrom,     Ann  a  tje 

Dorpett. 
Johannes  Douw,  Sara  de 

Freest. 
Gerret    Roos,    Elizabeth 

Bensen. 
Jan  Van  der  Meer,  Neel- 

tje  Van  Hoek. 
Gerred     Duyken,     Antje 

Van   Norde,   h.  v.  van 

Dirk  Slyk. 
Gerret     Stymes,     Catlyn 

Helmech. 
Evert    Duyken,    Antje 

Myer. 
Jan    Willemse    Rom  en, 

Janneke  Peers. 
Hendrik  Van  Schaik,  Jo- 
hannes Bogert,  Neeltje 

Cornell's,  h.  v.  van  Hrd. 

v:  Schaik   &    Annetje 

Stille. 
David t   Kermer,  Marytje 

Van  Rollegom. 


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A"  170S.                                 OUDERS.                           KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

12.                    Jacobus  Resaux,  Ma-  Jacobus.  Josua  Soulees,  Anna  Ve- 

ria  Countes.  sie. 

15.  Samuel   Beiard,  Mar-  Margreta.  Philip   Van   Cortlant, 

greta  Van  Kortlant.  Geertruy  Van  Cortlant. 

Jo.  docht. 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Ty  tje  Marytje.  Jacobus  Moene,  Marretje 

Dire.  Van    Dyk,    h.    v.    van 

Willem  Egt. 

19.                    An  drie  s  D  o  u  \v  e,  Catharina.  Willem  Appel,  Catharina 

Ariaantje     Rei-  Dow,  Wede. 
niers. 

O  8] 

Decemb:  25.    Nathan    Daly,     Sara  Ariaantje.  Filip  Dayly,   Cornelia,  s. 

Huysman.  h.  vrou. 

26.                     Jacobus  Van  der  Spie-  Johannes.  Rip  Van  Dam,Elsje  Rhee. 
gel,  Obyt  Annatje. 
Zanders. 

Johannes  Myer,  Sara  Vrouvvtjc.  Johannes  de  Feest,  Elsje 

de  Freest.  D dyking. 
aA°T7:0. 

January  5.        Robberd   Ling,    Aba-  Robberdt.  Pouweliis  Mouwritz  &  Ja- 

gail  Mas.  cobus    Mouwritz,   Jan- 

netje  de  Hart. 

Benjamin  Fides,  Aal-  Marytje.  Frans  Gerbrantse,  Hester 

tje  Schars.  Blank. 
Davidt   Kermer,  De-  Annatje.  Hendrik    Kermer,    lUiza- 
bora  Benie.  beth  Bertie. 
9.                       Steve  Brakele,    Dina  Reintje.  Samuel     Filipz,     Marytje 
Kloppers.  Berries. 
Matheus     Bensen,  Jonathan.  liarmanus  Bensen,  Mar- 
Cat  h  a  r  i  n  a  Pro-  grietje  Kerf  by  1. 
voost. 
Willem  Dee,  Susanna  Susanna.  Jacob   Salomonse,    Eliza- 
Salomonse.  beth  De. 

16.  Benjamin    Quakken-  Aarnoihvt.  Johannes    Low,    Claasje, 

bos,  Claasje  Web-  s.  h.  vrouw. 
bers. 

23.                     Hendrik    V  o  n  k,  Magdalena.  Henry    Filkens,   Magda- 

Catharina   H  e  g  e-  lena  Van  Dyk. 
mans. 

3°-                     Jan    Cannon,    Maria  Maria.  Gerret    de    Wendel,    Su- 

Legrau.  sanna  Koek. 

Jacob  Koning, Grietje  Johannes.  Arie     Koning,     Marretje 

Pieters.  Koning.  Wed. 

February  2.     Jacob    Brat,   Aefje  Barent.  Abraham    Splinter,    & 

Wessels.  Geertje,  s.  h"  vrou. 

Andries    Meyer,   Jnr,  Andries.  Andries  Meyer,  Zenr,  Aal- 

Geertje  Wessels.  tje  Wessels. 

Jan   Van  der  Meule,  Dirk.  Davidt    Provoost,    Jona- 

Catlyntje  Bensing.  .   thans  Soon,  Tysje  Ben- 
sing. 


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february  i, 

16. 


20. 


23. 


27. 


Maart  6. 


13. 


OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

Barent  de  freest,  Cat-  Ferametje. 

lyntje  Cerley. 
Johannes  K  o  u  w  e  n-  Sara. 

hove,  Rachel   Ben- 
sing. 
Samuel  Dee,    Celitje  Samuel. 

Salomons. 
John  Wood,  Susanna  Thomas. 

Chin  chel. 
Gysbert  Van  Inburg,  Gysbert. 

Jannetje  Mesier. 
Andries  Stubey,   Ma-  Elias. 

ria  Broussard. 
J  o  h  a  n  n  e  s  Benjon,  Pieter. 

Margareta  Baly. 
T  h  e  0  p  h  i  1  u  s  Elze-  Anna  Maria. 

waart.  Blandina  Bo- 
gar  d  us. 
Pieter  Van   Koinven-  Marretje. 

hove.    Wvntje  Ten 

Yk.  "   . 
Josua  Soulica,  Maria  Maria. 

Valow. 
Johannes   Thomasse,  Abraham. 

Maritje  Van  Deur- 

se. 
Richard   Rhee,   Elsje 

Sanders. 
Abraham   Brookz, 


Hanna  Oglesbev. 


J^isje. 

Abraham. 

Elizabeth. 


Gerret   Viele,  janne- 
tje Van  Veurde. 

Huybert   Van  den  Marytje. 
Berg,  Marytje  Lan- 
cing. 

Willem  Walton,  Maria  Jacobus. 
Zantvoort. 

Anthony  Lynch,  Sara  Anthony. 
Van  Dam. 

Jacob    Van  Deurse,  Aaltje. 
Aaltje     Uytdeboo- 
gert. 

Thomas  Sikkels,  Jan-  Thomas. 
netje  Brevoort. 

Jan  Brestede,  Anna  Anna  Maria. 
Marytje   E  1  z  e- 
waarth. 

Nicolaas    Theunisse,  Annetje. 
Grietje  Heermans. 

Frans    Ryerse,    Jan-  Theimis. 
netje  Dy. 


GETUYGEN. 

Hendrikus  de  Freest,  Eli- 
zabeth Pels. 

Jacob  Koiiwenhoven,  Eli- 
zabeth Mesier. 

Isaac  Salomonse,  Eliza- 
beth Franse. 

Abraham  Bajor,  Ariaan- 
tje  Warner. 

Pieter  Van  Imburg,  Mar- 
grela  Kloppers,  Wed. 

Elias  Bodinot,  Susanna 
d'Aval. 

Pieter  Burger,  Sara  Pro- 
voost. 

Cornel  us  Kierstede,  en 
Zara  syn  buys  vrouw. 

Abraham  Mesier,  Mary- 
tje Ten  Yk,  buys  vrou, 
van  Vessel  Wesselse.  » 

Elias  Chardauoijne,  Sara 
Valow. 

Gerret  Jurianse,  Grietje 
Pels. 

Pieter    Kraford,    "Wvntje 

Myer. 
Jan  Greegs,  Maria  Aartze. 

Hendrik  Verduyn,  Maria 
Verduyn,  s.  Suster. 

Samuel,  Staats,  Geertriiy 
Staats,  J°.  dochter. 

A  b  r  ah  a  m  V  a  n  Vlek, 
Vrouwtje  Santvoort. 

Rip  Van  Dam,  Gualther 
Thang.  Sara  Van  Dam. 

Samson  Bensen,  Neeltje 
Stoutenburg. 

Elias  Brevoort,  Grietje 
Amman. 

Clement  Elzewarth,  Jan- 
netje Brestede. 

Theunis  Cornelisse,  An- 
netje Claas,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Dirk  Dy  &  Annetje  Dirks, 
h.  v.  v:  Joris   Reyerse. 


, 


1SS5.J  i  Notes  and  Queries.  95 

NOTES   AND    QUERIES. 

Gracie,  GESNER,  Smit  or  Smythe,  Mann. — The  undersigned  desires  information 
in  regard  to  the  above-named  families. 

Rachel  Gracie  married  Abraham  Post.  She  had  a  brother  living  at  Jamaica,  L.  I., 
and  one  at  or  near  Derby,  Conn. — supposed  Daniel  ;  had  something  to  do  with  vessels 
about  1770. 

John  Hendrik  Gesner  (or  Gessinger)  came  to  this  country  from  Germany  in  1 709, 
married  Elizabeth  Smit  or  Smythe  ;  had  a  daughter  born  a  few  weeks  before  they  emi- 
grated, and  named  her  Elizabeth.  Wanted  the  early  history  and  also  information  of  this 
child  Elizabeth,  supposed  married  a  Valentine  about  or  at  New  York;  as  John  Heard- 
riked  lived  there  and  at  Yonkers  some  years.  The  Gesner,  sometimes  spelled  Gasner,  or 
Gosner,  came  originally  from  Munich,  or  Ober  Geesing,  River  Rhone. 

Information  is  also  desired  of  the  Mann  family  previous  to  1733.  Widow  and  children 
came  to  this  country  about  1760.  George  settled  at  Rockland,  west  side  of  Hudson 
River  ;  Michael  settled  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Hudson,  near  the  present  Irvington  ; 
David  and  Matthias  in  or  near  New  York.  W.   N.   GESNER. 

P.  O.  Box  330,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Mandeville  Family  Data.— William  Mandevil,  described  as  '-'Merchant  of  N.Y. 
City,'1  died  at  "  Seatalcott  in  the  N.  E.  Riding  of  Yorkshire  on  Long  Island,"  and  October 
30,  1679,  h*3  widow  Elizabeth  was  granted  administration  on  his  estate,  the  greater  part" 
of  which  was  said  to  be  in  the  town  of  Seatalcott.     (N.  Y.  Wills,  Liber  1,  p.  371.) 

Jellis  Mandeville.  —  His  will  dated  September  15,  1696,  describes  him  as  of  "  Green- 
wich in  the  County  of  New  York  ;  "  mentions  :  wife  Elsie  Mandeville,  sons  Hendrick, 
who  gets  farm   in  Queen's  County,  Nassau   Island  ;  David,  daughters,  Tryntie,  wife   of 

C clius  Jans-n.  Do  Secrrv.  (?),  Iletliu,  now  wife  of  Lawrence  Johnson,  Gerrtte,  wife  of 

Peter  Mott,  Gerittie,  now  wife  of  John  Mott.  Authorizes  sale  of  his  farm  at  Greenwich, 
on  N.  Yr.  Island,  and  makes  wife'Elsie  and  sons  Hendrick  and  David  Executors.  May 
22,  1 701,  wife  Elsie  took  oath  as  Executrix.      (N.  Y.  Wills,  Liber  2,  p.   109.) 

Cornelius  Mandeville. — Will,  dated  March  24,  176S,  describes  him  as  "of  the  Manor 
of  Courtlandt  in  the  County  of  Westchester,  Province  of  N.  Y.,"  and  mentions:  wife 
Rachel,  sons  David,  John,  Nathan,  and  James  ;  daughters  Martha,  Anne,  Hannah  ; 
cousins,  Joshua,  Nelson,  and  Daniel  Birdsall. 

Note. — Mr.  Mandeviile's  wife  was  Rachel  Horton,  and  is  said,  by  tradition,  to  have 
come  from  L<:mg  Island.  The  daughter  Anne  married  the  Hon.  Abraham  Odell,  of 
Greenburgh,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.  (see  Odell  Pedigree,  Bolton's  "  History  of 
Westchester  County").  rufus  king. 

Yonkers^  N.    Y. 

Robinson.— Correction — The  name  of  the  third  child  of  Henry  B.  Robinson  given  on 
page  6  of  the  January  number  of  the  Record  as  "  Candace  Alice"  should  have  been 
Caroline  Alice. 

Seaman-Powell. — I  have  ascertained,  since  the  publication  of  the  record  of  the 
11  Willis  Family,"  that  I  made  an  error  on  page  175,  of  Vol.  XV.  of  The  Record. 

127.  Jacob  Seaman,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Seaman,  m.  Mary  Powell,  b.  March 
18,  1697,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Powell.  Should  read,  "  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Eliza- 
beth Powell."      Her  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  Phillips.  eenj.  d.  hicks. 

Seaman  Family. — A  subscriber  sends  the  following  reply  to  query,  Vol.  XV.,  p. 
140. — Capt.  John  Seaman,  1644  to  1692,  had  children,  John,  Jonathan,  Benjamin, 
Solomon,  and  Elizabeth,  born  of  the  first  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  John  Strickland. 

Benjamin  l,  the  third  son,  born  about  1650,  married  Martha,  dau.  of  Edmund  Titus,  of 
Westbury,  L.  I  .,  whose  wife  was  Martha,  dau.  of  Wm.  and  Mary  Washburn.  Children  : 
Benjamin,  born  16S5  ;  Jane,  m.  Joseph  Clements  ;  Martha,  m.  Jonathan  Rowland  ;  Jacob, 
m.  Mary,  and  James,  m.  Martha,  daughters  of  Saml.  Seaman;  Phebe,  m.  Jacob  Town- 
send  ;  Elizabeth,  m.  1,  James  Worries,  2,  Thomas  Rushmore ;  Temperance,  m.  I, 
Joseph  Wright,  and  2,  Wm.  Kirby  ;  Solomon,   m.    Hannah,  d.  of  Thomas  Seaman. 

Benjamin  -,  m.  Jane  Mott,  of  Staten  Island,  and  had  ten  children  ;  1,  Elizabeth, 
b.  July  3,  1710,  m.  Amos  Underbill;  2,  Martha,  b.  Dec.  17,  171 1,  m.  Wm.  Seaman; 
3,  Jane.  b.  Dec.  14,  1713,  m.  John  Robbins  ;  4,  Miriam,  b.  March  24,  1716,  d.  April 
30,  1729;  5,  Hannah;  6,  Benjamin;  7,  Ann;  8,  Phebe;  9,  Mary;  10,  Edmund,  ail 
five  of  whom,  except  Benjamin,  died  young. 

Benjamin  3,  born  Dec.  n,  17 19,  md.  a  d.  of  Adam  Mott,  of  Staten  Island,  and  had 
five  children:  1,  Edmund;  2,  Benjamin;  3,  William;  4,  John;  5,  Henry,  m.  Sarah  Billot. 


gS  -  'Notes  on  Books.  [April,  1885, 

Edmund4,  m.  ;  died   1S2S,  and  left  1,  Catharine,  m.  first,  Capt.   John  Kort 

right,  and,  second,  H.  B.  Livingston  ;  2,  Robert;  3,  John.  E.  H.  s. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 

History   OF  the  Ancient  Ryedales    and    their    Descendants   in  Normandy,  Great 
Britain,  Ireland,  and  America,  from  860  to  18S4.      Comprising  the  Genealogy  and 
Biography,  for  about  One  Thousand  Years,  of  the  families  of  Riddel!,  Kiddle,  Rid- 
lo?i,  Ridley,  etc.      Fully  illustrated  with  Engravings  of  Portraits,  Residences,  Monu- 
ments, Coats   of  Arms,  and   Autographs   on  Stone,   Steel,  and   Wood.      By  G.    T. 
Ridlon",  Manchester,  N.  H.      Published  by  the  author,  1S84.      Svo,  pp.  x. ,  786. 
This  substantial  volume  is  a  marvel  of  industrious  labor  and  research  ;  and   to  gene- 
alogists no  portion  will  be  of  more  interest  than  the  ,;  Introduction  and  Compendium," 
wherein  the  author  gives  the  4i  history  of  the  work,"   with  a  fervor  of  pride  and  circum- 
stantiality which  will  recall  to  many  a  worker   in  similar   fields  the  difficulties,  defeats, 
and  triumphs   which  they  themselves  have  encountered.      Mr.  Ridlon  has  gone  very  ex- 
tensively into   the  trans-atlantic   history,  and  present    British   connection    of  the  family; 
and  the  heraldic  portion  of  the  volume  is   very  fully  treated  and   splendidly  embellished 
with  twenty  coats   of  arms,  printed  in  colors   and  tints;  besides  some  fifteen  (steel  en- 
graved) portraits  of  contemporary  British   Ridleys,  Ridlons,  etc.      Eighteen,  also,  of  the 
twenty  full-page  views  of  family  residences,  printed  in   tinted  lithograph,  are  views  con- 
nected with  the   families  in  England  and  Scotland.     The   biographies  of  this  volume  are 
carefully  worked  up  ;  and  no  pains   left  untaken  to  present    to  the  Ridleys,  Ridlons,  and 
Riddells  of  each  hemisphere  a  book   in   which  they  can  glean    each  a  knowledge  of  the 
(jliici,  <ni^  iii  ivliicii  atsu  Lucy  i_a.u    ■  'see  themselves  as  others  sec-  them."     The  system  of 
genealogical  notation    employed   in  this  book,  though  passably  clear,  is  not,  in  our  judg- 
ment, the  best  which  could  have  been  adopted.     It  disconnects  (unnecessarily)  the  parents 
from  their  children.      In  our  opinion  the  individual  family  record  should  be  homogeneous, 
from  the  marriage  of  the  parents  to  and  including  the  birth  of  their  youngest  child.     The 
plan  of  notation  adopted  by  the  New  England  Historical  Genealogical  Society  has  been 
so  long  before  the  genealogical  public  that  ignorance  of  its  systematic,  coherent,  and  per- 
fect method  can  no  longer  be  pleaded  in  extenuation  of  less  perfect  methods  ;  and  it  is 
very  desirable   that  all  American   genealogies  should  be   conformed,  as  far  as  possible,  to 
one  uniform  system  of  notation. 

But  even  this  (to  our  eyes)  blemish  cannot  deduct  largely  from  the  merits  which  this 
work  possesses.  Mr.  Ridlon  is  already  well  known  by  his  kl  Early  Settlers  of  Harrison, 
Me. ,"  "  Hamblins  of  Beech  Hill,"  "  Burbank  Genealogy,'5  and  other  historical  and 
genealogical  writings;  and.  if  his  portrait  in  this  volume  is  a  fair  presentment,  he  is  yet 
"good"   for  much  similar  work  in  the  future.  H.   R.  S. 

Maine  Historical  and  Genealogical  Recorder.  Vol.  I.  Portland:  S.  M. 
Watson,  publisher.  18S4. 
We  are  glad  to  welcome  this  new  effort  in  aid  of  local  and  general  history.  It  gives 
us  the  biography  and  genealogy  of  our  own  noted  citizen,  the  Senator  Rufus  King,  and 
his  half  brother  William,  the  first  Governor  of  Maine,  and  of  the  Fogg  family,  and  sev- 
eral others.  It  copies  some  of  the  early  records  of  Scarborough,  Kittery,  and  later  from 
other  places.  To  us  the  brief  sketches  of  early  settlers,  called  the  "  Founders  of  Maine," 
are  among  the  most  useful  and  desirable.  Many  of  the  descendants  of  the  early  and 
hardy  settlers  of  Maine  are  scattered  over  our  count ry.  C.  B.  M. 


OBITUARY 


Dwight. — Francis  Edwin  D wight,  M.D.,  only  son  of  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Dwight, 
D.D.,  of  Clinton,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.,  died  in  New  York,  February  2,  1SS5.  He  was 
born  in  Clinton,  N.  Y.,  December  11,  1S56,  and  graduated  A.B.  at  Hamilton  College,  in 
1878,  and  after  due  study  graduated  Doctor  in  Medicine  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  Columbia  College,  New  York,  in  1SS2.  Plis  attainments  were  of  a  very  high 
order,  and  brilliant  prospects  awaited  him  in  the  profession  of  his  choice.  In  18S4  he 
was  House  Physician  of  New  York  Hospital.  He  died  of  phthisis  pulmonalis.  We 
deeply  sympathize  with  our  generous  contributor  in  this  his  great  and  sad  bereavement. 

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GRAVESEND,  L.   I.,  OLD    AND    NEW,, 
By  Rev.  A.  P.  Stockwell. 


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(Read  before  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  April  10,  18S5. ) 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : 

FnA",,,,,f'  your  interest  in  puprv  rlpnqrrmprit  of  antiquarian  research, 
and  believing,  also,  that  you  will  listen  with  patience  and  courtesy  to  even 
the  feeblest  attempt  in  thus  direction,  I  have  the  more  cheerfully  under- 
taken the  task  before  rue.  And  in  presenting  to  you  to-night  this  simple 
paper,  permit  me  to  say  that  I  do  not  presume  to  offer  anything  which  has 
special  claim  upon  the  attention  and  consideration  of  your  learned  Body  ; 
but  simply  hope  to  interest  you,  in  some  degree  at  least,  for  a  little  time. 
by  a  plain  narration  of  historical  facts  concerning  one  of  the  oldest  towns 
within  the  borders  of  the  Empire  State.  Nor  is  it  my  purpose,  in  the 
brief  time  I  am  permitted  to  occupy  your  attention,  to  attempt  anything 
like  an  exhaustive  history  ;  but  1  shall  endeavor  to  present  simply  an  out- 
line, enlarging  only,  and  briefly,  upon  those  points  which  seem  to  me  of 
the  most  interest  and  importance. 

I  think  we  may  justly  claim  for  Gravesend  the  honor  of  being  the  first 
spot  in  the  State  trodden  by  the  foot  of  the  white  man.  The  Italian  navi- 
gator, Verazzano,  commissioned  by  the  King  of  France,  was  doubtless 
the  first  to  look  upon  its  white,  sandy  beach,  and  its  thickly-wooded  inland 
as  early  as  1524,  when  he  explored  what  he  afterwards  called  "The  Beauti- 
ful Bay  ;"  and  who,  doubtless,  at  this  time  held  some  sort  of  communica- 
tion with  the  aboriginal  inhabitants.  For  while  some  doubt  has  been  cast 
by  certain  historians  upon  the  truth  of  this  assertion,  yet  more  recently 
discovered  documentary  evidence  would  seem  to  establish  beyond  doubt 
the  credibility  of  his  official  report.  Be  this  as  it  may,  we  have  more  than 
tradition  to  support  the  assertion  that  eighty-five  years  after  the  departure 
of  Verazzano,  Hendrick  Hudson,  in  1609,  anchored  the  Half  Moon 
off  the  shore  of  Coney  Island,  landed  upon  our  beach,  and  held  several 
interviews  with  the  native  Indians. 

How  many  generations  of  the  savage  tribes  before  this  had  roamed  at 
will  through  the  unbroken  forests,  and  finally  passed  away  to  their  happy 
hunting-grounds,  the  pen  of  history  can  never  record.  That  they  were 
here  before  us  we  know  ;  that  they  have  all  passed  away  is  equally  true. 
Hut  to  this  generation  it  seems  like  a  story  of  ancient  mythology,  that  such 


<p8  Graves'endj  L.  /.,  Old  and  New.  [Jutyi 

a  race  ever  lived,  and  actually  possessed  the  land  which  now  we  see  like  a 
smiling  garden  before  us  ;  or  that  the  wigwam  of  the  savage  ever  stood 
where  now  are  the  peaceful  homes  of  an  industrious  and  happy  people. 
Such  mighty  changes  the  hand  of  time  has  wrought. 

Gravesend,  Old  and  Neu^  or  Graveser.d  in  its  early  and  in  its  more 
recent  history,  presents  a  contrast  as  marked  as  could  well  be  imagined. 
For  2  7,0  years  from  its  first  settlement  the  growth  of  the  town,  in  numbers 
and  material  advancement,  was  exceedingly  slow.  It  required  decades, 
instead  of  years,  to  note  any  essential  change  in  the  line  of  general  prog- 
ress. During  all  these  years  the  old  town,  to  every  appearance,  had  fallen 
into  an  almost  dreamless  sleep.  Every  generation,  following  in  the  foot- 
steps of  its  predecessor,  had  settled  down  to  a  life  of  plodding  contentment. 
They  had  neither  time  nor  patience  to  waste  upon  experiments,  which 
promised  only  a  possibility  of  future  good.  They  cared  little  for  the  great 
world  of  life  and  thought  beyond  their  limits;  and  deemed  it  almost  pre- 
sumptuous to  be  better  or  wiser  than  their  fathers,  In  their  domestic  re- 
lations they  were  generally  satisfied  and  happy.  He  was  an  adventurous 
youth  who  sought  a  wife  beyond  the  boundaries  of  his  own  town  ;  and  it 
was  a  rare  thing  for  a  maiden  to  marry  and  settle  beyond  sight  of  the 
paternal  roof.  So,  from  the  start,  they  have  married~and  intermarried, 
and  have  thus  preserved  among  themselves  their  accumulated  wealth,  and 
have  formed  a  perfect  network  of  relationship  which  would  require  a  decade 
for  a  stranger  to  unravel  Thus,  for  generations,  honest,  industrious,  and 
frugal,  they  pursued  the  even  tenor  of  their  ways  ;  and  craving  no  social 
or  domestic  alliances  with  the  outside  world,  they  were  content  to  live  and 
die  within  themselves.  But  at  length  a  mighty  change  came  over  their 
whole  expeiience.  The  old  town  was  rudely  shaken  out  of  her  two  hundred 
years  and  more  of  quiet  slumber,  and  made  to  feel  the  pressure  of  a  power 
she  could  not  resist.  Within  the  last  ten  years,  the  keen-eyed  capitalist  saw 
in  the  improvement  and  development  of  her  five  miles  of  ocean  frontage  a 
mine  of  vast  wealth.  To  secure  this  end,  therefore,  all  the  push  and  en- 
terprise necessary  were  called  into  active  operation,  with  results  far  exceed- 
ing the  highest  expectations.  Hence,  to-day  we  see  the  town  of  Graves- 
end  compelled,  by  the  very  force  of  circumstances,  to  take  her  place  in  the 
march  of  progress,  Her  venerable  age,  and  her  recent  rapid  growth,  com- 
mend her  history  to  our  favorable  attention. 

I  am  confident  I  speak  within  the  bounds  of  truth  when  I  say  that  no 
town  within  the  United  States,  all  things  considered,  can  boast  of  a  situa- 
tion more  important,  or  climate  more  healthful  or  soil  more  productive,  or 
surroundings  which  oiler  greater  attractions  for  the  home-life  and  comfort 
of  its  inhabitants,  than  Gravesend. 

The  boundaries  of  the  town  present  a  somewhat  peculiar  outline,  being 
triangular  in  form,  with  the  apex  reaching  near  the  city  of  Brooklyn  on  the 
north,  and  its  broad  base  washed  by  the  waters  of  the  Atlantic  Ocean  on 
the  south.  Thus  it  stands,  between  the  city  and  the  sea,  within  walking 
distance  of  both,  a  literal  garden  spot,  whose  annual  product  forms  no  in- 
significant part  of  the  daily  supply  of  the  gi  eat  metropolis  of  the  nation. 

The  soil,  though  somewhat  light  and  sandy,  is  yet  productive,  and  yields 
to  the  farmer  a  handsome  profit  for  all  the  care  and  labor  he  bestows  upon 
it.  But  even  now  the  land  is  becoming  far  too  valuable  for  farming  pur- 
poses ;  and  at  no  distant  day  it  must  yield  to  the  demand  for  homes  for 
the  fast-increasing  population. 


885.] 


Gravesend}  L.  J.,  Old  and  New. 


[99 


The  water  is  unexcelled  in  quality,  and  its  supply  is  apparently  inex- 
haustible. In  an  hour's  time,  almost  anywhere  under  skilful  hands,  a 
well  may  be  driven  through  the  soil  without  difficulty,  until  it  strikes  a 
vein  of  pure,  soft  water,  which,  judging  from  past  experience,  will  never 
fail.  Under  these  favorable  circumstances,  with  a  beautiful  climate  and 
congenial  surroundings,  the  inhabitants  have  rarely  been  exposed  to  any 
dangerous  epidemic,  but  in  the  midst  of  peace  and  plenty  have  lived  to  a 
good  old  age. 

The  Early  Settlement. — Let  us  now  turn  back  in  imagination  two 
hundred  and  fifty  years  and  visit  the  location  we  are  attempting  to  de- 
scribe. 

We  shall  find  the  upland  of  this  portion  of  the  island  for  the  most  part 
covered  with  the  primeval  forest.  Hitherto  the  Canarsie  Indians,  includ- 
ing the  Nyack  tribe,  had  claimed  title  to  all  that  region  from  the  "  Nar- 
rows "  to  Canarsie  Bay,  and  from  the  East  River  to  the  Atlantic  Ocean. 
No  white  man  had  yet  ventured  to  invade  this  part  of  the  Indian  domain 
with  a  view  to  permanent  settlement. 

The  only  dwellings  wrere  the  rude  wigwams ;  and  tire  only  roads  the 
Indian  trails.  But  soon  the  adventurous  Hollanders,  tempted  by  the  rich- 
ness of  the  soil,  and  the  glowing  vision  of  accumulating  guilders,  dared  to 
push  a  little  distance  beyond  the  limits  of  New  Amsterdam,  and  built  their 
humble  homes,  here  and  there,  upon  the-level  and  fertile  lands  near  Amers- 
fort  (Flatlands). 

The  attempts,  however,  of  the  pioneer  settlers  to  establish  homes  and 
lay  out  farms  for  themselves,  seem,  for  the  most  part,  to  have  been  made 
along  the  shore  of  the  u  Narrows,''  and  following  southward,  until  they 
came  to  the  more  open  waters  of  Gravesend  Bay.  The  reason  for  this 
doubtless  was  that  they  found  easier  access  to  the  Fort  by  a  shore  road, 
and  an  open  highway  upon  the  water  to  carry  their  farm  produce  to  their 
only  market.  But  venturing  farther  and  farther  inland,  as  they  became 
more  accustomed  to  their  new  surroundings,  we  find,  about  the  year  1642, 
that  three  families  had  settled  within  what  afterward  became  the  town 
limits  of  Gravesend. 

These  three,  whose  names  we  find  upon  the  town  records,  wjre  Antony 
Jansen,  Guisbert  Op  Dyck,  and  Robert  Pennoyer.  These  men  afterward 
obtained  individual  parents  for  their  "  boweries "  or  farms,  as  we  shall 
hereafter  see.  The  proper  settlement  of  the  town,  however,  must  date 
from  the  year  1643.  ^n  t'"1^5  year  Lady  Deborah  Moody  came  from  Massa- 
chusetts, and  with  some  of  her  English  associates,  began  here  what  she 
evidently  regarded  as  a  most  important  and  promising  settlement. 

It  may  be  well  just  here  to  give  a  brief  outline  of  the  life  and  character 
of  the  woman  whose  name  is  so 
closely  interwoven  with  the  early 
annals  of  the  town,  and  whose 
courage  and  intelligent  manage- 
ment gave  shape  and  final  success 
to  this  important  enterprise. 

Lady  Moody  was  the  daughter 
of  Walter  Hunch,  from  Garsden,  in 
W  iltshire,   Eng.     She  became    the 
wife  of  Sir  Henry  Moody,  who  was  created  a  baronet  by  King  James,  in 
1622.      Her    father  was  a  member  of  Parliament  in  the  reign  of  Queen 


iazpfWfy 


IOO  Xjrravesenay  L.  /.,  Old  and  Jtetv.  [Juty> 

Elizabeth,  and  her  uncle  also,  at  a  later  period.  Both  in  and  out  of  Par- 
liament, her  father's  family  had  been  the  open  and  avowed  champions  of 
popular  liberty  and  constitutional  rights.  Thus  she  herself,  very  early  in 
life,  became  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  her  father.  Her  sympa- 
thies we:e  enlisted  for  the  down-trodden  and  oppressed  of  every  name, 
while  she  had  only  contempt  and  hatred  for  every  form  of  tyranny,  whether 
in  Church  or  State.  Born  of  noble  blood,  and  honorably  connected  by 
marriage,  her  influence  was  thus  keenly  felt  against  every  infringement  oi 
•  popular  rights. 

Her  husband,  Sir  Henry,  died  in  1632.  Three  years  later,  in  1635. 
*'e  are  told  that  in  leaving  her  country  home  for  a  short  residence  in  Lon- 
don, she  violated  a  penal  statute  which  forbade  anyone  residing  for  a  speci- 
fied lime  from  his  own  home. 

This  offence,  perhaps  unwittingly  committed,  provoked  from  the  Court 
of  Star  Chamber  a  special  decree  that  "  Dame  Deborah  Moody  and  others 
should  return  to  their  hereditaments  in  forty  days  in  the  good  example 
necessary  to  the  poorer  classes."  Chafing  under  such  unjust  restraints  of  a 
civil  and  ecclesiastical  despotism,  we  cannot  wonder  that  she  longed  to 
flee  to  the  new  world,  to  find  a  home  in  a  land  and  among  a  people  where 
the  inalienable  rights  of  humanity  were  held  sacred  and  secure.  Accord- 
ingly, in  1040.  she  emigrated  lo  i»rasaachusetts,  and  settled  for  the  time  being 
in  Salem.  Being  a  woman  of  strong  religious  feeling,  she  immediately,  on 
the  5th  of  April,  connected  herself  with  the  church  at  Salem. 

On  Ma}-  13th  of  the  same  year  the  General  Court  granted  five  hundred 
acres  of  land  for  a  plantation,  and  the  following  year  she  purchased  the 
farm  of  Deputy-Governor  John  Humfrv,  called  Swamscott,  near  Lynn,  for 
which  she  paid  ^~i.i  co.  This  would  indicate  that  she  was  a  woman  of  con- 
siderable wealth,  as  well  as  high  standi:".:  in  the  community.  But  her 
dreams  of  quiet  repose  and  religious  toleration  among  her  Puritan  neigh- 
bors proved  delusive.  Within  two  years  after  her  settlement  she  was 
openly  accused  of  heresy  in  adopting  the  peculiar  views  of  Roger  Williams 
with  regard  to  infant  baptism  ;  and  on  this  account  she  was  speedily  ad- 
monished by  the  Church,  and  refusing  to  change  her  religious  sentiment  at 
the  bidding  of  men.  she  was  forthwith  suspended,  and  finally  excommuni- 
cated. But  not  content  with  visiting  upon  her  ecclesiastical  discipline,  the 
over-zealous  fathers  of  the  Church  verily  thought  they  were  doing  God  ser- 
vice by  bringing  her  before  the  Quarterly  Court  charged  with  the  grave 
offence  cf  daring  to  bold  religious  convictions  not  in  strict  harmony  with 
the  orthodox  faith. 

These  petty  persecutions,  therefore,  decided  her  to  seek  for  the  second 
time,  if  it  were  possible,  an  asylum  where  she  could  enjoy  unrestrained 
liberty  in  matters  of  religious  opinion,  with  none  to  molest  or  make  her 
afraid.  Hence,  in  the  early  part  of  1643,  with  her  son.  Sir  Henry.  John 
Tiiton  and  wife,  and  a  (tw  other  friends  cf  like  faith,  she  turned  her  back 
upon  the  sorrows  and  disappointments  of  her  Salem  home,  and  sought  ref- 
uge and  peace  among  the  more  tolerant  Dutch  settlers  of  New  Amsterdam. 
Governor  Winthrop,  of  Massachusetts,  in  speaking  of  her  afterward  in 
his  journal,  indicates  the  regard  in  which  she  was  still  held  by  those  most 
competent  to  judge  of  her  real  character,  although  "  disfellowshipped  "  by 
her  own  Church.  He  says:  "The  Lady  Moody,  a  wise  and  anciently 
religious  woman,  being  taken  with  the  error  of  denying  I  .;  tism  to  infants, 
was  dealt  with  bv  the  Elders  and  other-,  a:  I  admonished  by  the  Church  of 


1SS5.]  Gr a:  cser.tt  Z.  /.,  Old  and  New.  IOl 

Salem  (whereof  she  was  a  member),  but  persisting  still  and  to  avoid  further 
trouble,  she  removed  to  the  Dutch  against  the  advice  of  her  friends." 

She  is  said  to  have  found  at  New  Amsterdam  a  number  of  her  own 
countrymen  who  had  tied  to  the  fort  for  protection  against  the  Indian  hos- 
tilities, which  the  unjust  policy  of  the  Director-General,  Kieft,  had  pre- 
cipitated upon  the  colonists.  Among  the  latter  was  Nicholas  Stilhvell,  or 
Nicholas  "the  tobacco  planter,"  as  he  is  sometimes  called  in  the  old  town 
records.  He  seems  to  have  been  the  leading  spirit  in  a  small  settlement 
of  English  residents  which  early  sprang  up  in  the  upper  part  of  Manhattan 
Island,  from  which  they  had  now  lied  through  fear  of  the  Indians. 

These  two  parties,  naturally  one  in  sympathy  and  bound  together  by  tin  ir 
common  relationship  to  the  mother  country,  most  readily  now  united  their 
present  interest  ;  and  upon  the  invitation  of  Governor  Kieft,  they  selected 
from  the  unappropriated  lands  of  the  West  India  Company  the  present 
site  of  Gravesend  for  their  future  home.  Lady  Moody  still  retained  her 
prominent  position  and  exerted  a  controlling  influence  over  the  united 
colony. 

Thus  began  the  settlement  of  the  town,  under  the  leadership  of  a  wom- 
an of  education  and  refinement,  whose  force  of  character,  combined  with 
her  uprightness  of  life,  made  her  a  power  for  good  wherever  she  was  known. 
Both  by  nature  ^^  ^nre  che  was  fitted  to  be  a  pioneer  in  such  an  enter- 
prise. For  sixteen  years  she  went  in  and  out  among  the  people,  promi- 
nent in  their  councils,  and  of; en  intrusted  with  important  public  responsi- 
bilities, which  prove  the  respect  and  confidence  of  her  associates.  She 
seems  also  to  have  enjoyed  the  friendship  of  Governor  Stuyvesant,  who 
several  times  sought  her  advice  in  matters  of  great  public  importance. 
Even  the  nomination  of  the  three  town  magistrates  was.  on  one  or  two  oc- 
casions, intrusted  by  the  Director-General  to  her  good  judgment.  He  also 
availed  himself  of  her  kind  ofiices.  on  another  occasion,  in  quelling  an  in- 
cipient rebellion  raised  by  some  of  her  English  associates  against  the  Dutch 
authority. 

The  town,  by  special  grant,  gave  her  a  "bowery,"  or  farm,  which  con- 
tained 30  morgen  or  sixty  acres  of  upland,  with  meadow  land  sufficient  for 
pasturage.  Here  she  spent  the  closing  years  of  her  busy  and  eventful 
life  ;  and  even  to  the  very  last,  as  the  old  records  abundantly  show,  made 
herself  useful  to  her  associates  in  the  faithful  discharge  oi  important  pub- 
lic trusts.  We  are  able,  from  the  data  at  hand,  to  fix  the  time  of  her  death 
as  occurring  in  the  early  part  of  the  year  1659.  Thus,  after  a  life  and  ex- 
perience so  remarkable,  she  passed  to  her  reward,  leaving  a  name  that  is 
held  to-day  in  most  affectionate  remembrance  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  town 
which  she  founded,  and  of  whose  early  history  she  formed  so  great  a  part. 

But  having  founded  an  infant  settlement,  the  next  thing  was  to  give  it  a 
name.  Just  why  they  should  select  et  Graresetid"  rather  than  a  name 
more  poetical  and  less  suggestive,  it  would  be  impossible  at  this  remote 
day  precisely  to  determine.  No  record  is  left  to  tell  what  influence  ltd 
them  to  their  final  decision.  Two  theories,  however,  have  been  advanced. 
The  first,  and  perhaps  the  most  reasonable,  is  that  the  name  was  taken 
from  the  flourishing,  commercial  town  of  Gravesend,  in  England,  from 
which  they  are  supposed  to  have  sailed  on  their  departure  for  America. 
If  they  did,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  make  Gravesend  the  point  of  departure  for 
this  country,  they  would  naturally  desire  to  commemorate  the  event  by 
giving  the  name  to  the  new  town  they  had  just  founded  on  this  side  of  the 


102  Gravesend,  Z.  /.,  Old  and  New.  [Jubr> 

ocean.  But  we  can  find  no  evidence  that  this  was  the  case  ;  and  cer- 
tainly it  was  not  the  former  home  oi  the  leading  spirits  in  the  enterprise. 
The  other  theory  is  that  Governor  Kieft,  when  granting  permission  to 
settle  here.  ^r  later,  when  he  issued  the  patent,  suggested  the  name  from 
the  old  Dutch  town  of  "  Gravesende"  in  Holland,  which  may  have  been 
the  birthplace  or  home  of  the  Governor.  The  word  means  "the  Count's 
Beach,"  a  name  highly  appropriate  for  the  new  town. 

Pioneer  Settlers. — We  have  already  seen  that  there  were  three  men 
who  obtained  individual  patents  for  certain  parcels  of  land  before  the  town 
proper  was  settled.  The  first  was  Antony  Jansen,  whose  patent  was  dated 
May  27,  1643,  an<3  was  for  100  tnorgen  (200  acres)  lying  southwest  of  the 
village,  partly  in  what  afterward  was  Gravesend,  and  partly  in  New  Utrecht, 
covered  now  by  the  village  of  Unionville.  The  next  in  order  of  time  was 
that  of  Guisbert  Op  Dyck,  for  Guisbert's  Island,  now  a  part  of  Coney  Is- 
land, dated  in  1644,  and  was  for  44  morgen  (88  acres).  This  land  was 
afterward  claimed  by  the  town  as  -included  in  the  patent  of  Gravesend. 
The  next  was  the  patent  of  Robert  Pennoyer,  dated  November  29.  1645, 
for  89  morgen.  This  patent  was  given  upon  the  express  condition  that  he 
should  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  States-General,  and  promise  obe- 
dience to  their  Director  and  Council. 

The  hrst  town  patent  was  granted  by  Governor  Kieft,  December  19, 
1645.  It  is  remarkable  as  being  prooabiy  the  only  one  of  its  kind  where 
a  woman  heads  the  list  of  patentees.  It  was  granted  to  "  Lady  Deborah 
Moody,  Sir  Henry  Moody,  John  Tilton,  Sergeant  James  Hiibbard,  Lieut. 
George  Baxter,  and  their  associates,''  supposed  to  be  thirty-nine  in  all,  as  we 
judge  from  the  subsequent  divisions  o\  land  into  thirty-nine  parts.  The 
other  name?,  mentioned  as  their  "associates,"  are  as  follows:  Samuel 
Holmes,  John  Lake,  William  Compton,  Samuel  Spicer,  John  Bown,  Thomas 
Delaval,  John  Cook.  Nicholas  Stillwell,  Peter  Symson,  Richard  Stillwell, 
John  Grigg,  Barent  Juriansen,  Obadiah  Wilkins,  William  Wilkins,  Ralph 
Cardell,  Charles  Bridges.  William  Williamson,  John  Emens,  John  Poland, 
Ambrose  Loudon,  John  Applegate,  William  Goulding,  Thomas  Cornwell, 
John  Buckman,  Michael  Jure,  John  Morris,  Richard  Stout,  and  Nathaniel 
Brittain,  and  perhaps  one  or  two  others. 

The  patent  granted  them  what  must  have  been  especially  pleasing  to 
Lady  Moody,  viz..  i;  freedom  of  worship  without  magisterial  or  ministerial 
interference/'"  Tnis  first  patent  of  1645  v,'a5  confirmed  by  Governor  Love- 
lace, in  1670,  by  the  issue  of  another  which  more  clearly  defined  the  town 
boundaries,  which  had  long  been  a  matter  of  dispute  because  of  the  vague- 
ness with  which  they  had  been  expressed  in  the  first  general  patent.  Later 
still  another  confirmatory  patent  was  issued  by  Governor  Dongan,  in  1686, 
by  which  the  town  lines  were  somewhat  extended  and  made  more  definite 
and  permanent.  This  patent  also  changed  the  quit-rent  to  be  paid  His 
Majesty  from  one-tenth  the  product  01  the  soil  to  six  bushels  of  good,  mer- 
chantable winter  wheat,  to  be  paid  on  the  "5  and  20th  day  of  March  for- 
ever." This  quit-rent  continued  to  be  paid  until  1786,  when  a  law  was 
passed  giving  the  towns  the  privilege  of  commuting  the  quit-rent  by  the 
payment  of  all  arrearages  (less  the  eight  years  of  the  war)  and  a  sum  equal 
to  fourteen  years  additional,  when  they  should  be  forever  exempt  from  all 
further  payments. 

That  Gravesend  met  her  obligation  fully  in  this  matter,  the  receipt  of 
the  State  Treasurer,  for  £$1  193.  in  full,  is  ample  evidence. 


18S5-]  Gravesend,  Z.  /.,  Old  and  New.  103 

These  three  original  town  patents,  written  upon  parchment,  are  to  be 
found  well  preserved  in  the  Town  Clerk's  office  at  Gravesend. 

Laying  out  the  Town. — Thus  furnished  with  the  requisite  authority, 
Lady  Moody  and  her  associates  began  in  earnest  the  work  before  them. 
Selecting  a  site  near  the  centre  of  the  town,  they  measured  off  a  square 
containing  about  sixteen  acres,  and  opened  a  street  around  it.  This 
square  they  afterward  divided  into  four  equal  squares,  by  running  two 
streets  at  right  angles  through  the  centre.  The  whole  was  then  surrounded 
by  a  palisade  fence  for  protection  against  hostile  Indians  and  against  wolves, 
which  were  then  numerous  upon  the  Island.  This  fence  consisted  of  trees 
cut  in  lengths  of  nine  or  ten  feet,  and  planted  three  or  four  feet  in  the 
ground  in  close  order,  thus  forming  a  fair  defence  in  case  of  sudden  attack. 
The  village  plan  as  originally  laid  out  is  still  the  same  to-day,  as  we  readily 
see  by  comparing  it  with  the  original  map  made  at  the  time  of  settlement. 

Prom  this  we  learn  that  each  of  the  four  squares  was  divided  into 
sections,  laid  off  around  the  outside  of  each  square  facing  the  outer  street, 
and  numbered  from  one  to  ten  in  each  square.  This  gave  forty  sections, 
one  for  each  of  the  thirty-nine  patentees,  and  one  for  public  use.  By  this 
division  each  family  could  live  in  the  village  and  share  alike  the  palisade 
defence.  In  the  centre  of  each  square  was  reserved  a  large  public  yard, 
as  it  was  called,  where  the  cattle  were  herded  for  the  night  for  their  better 
protection.  tVhiie  the  general  plan  remains  to-day  after  near]}- two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years,  yet  the  public  yards  have  become  absorbed  in  the  sur- 
rounding property. 

The  "Planters'  Lots,"  as  they  were  then  called,  containing  about 
fifty  acres,  were  laid  out  in  triangular  form,  the  apex  being  at  the  town 
square,  and  the  boundary  lines  diverging  therefrom  like  the  radii  of  a  circle, 
thus  enabling  every  man  to  go  from  his  home  within  the  village  defence 
to  his  farm  with  least  trouble  and  exposure  to  himself.  Several  of  the 
town  farms  have  retained  to  this  day  the  same  peculiarity  of  outline.  By 
reference  to  this  old  map  above  referred  to,  we  can  easily  locate  the 
" bowery"  of  Lady  Moody,  which  extended  from  the  northeast  corner  of 
the  town  square,  and  is  distinctly  marked  upon  the  map. 

Land  Divisions. — From  time  to  time  different  allotments  of  land  were 
made  to  the  inhabitants  as  they  needed,  or  were  able  to  clear  and  cultivate. 
In  the  year  1657,  one  thousand  acres  were  thus  divided,  supposed  to  be 
that  lying  adjacent  to  the  town  lots.  The  north  quarter,  as  it  was  called, 
was  divided  into  twelve-,  and  the  west  quarter  into  twenty-acre  lots.  The 
eastern  part  of  the  town  known  as  the  "general  cornfield,"  was  allotted  in 
1668-69;  and  the  north  quarter,  called  the  "North  Woods,"  in  16S4.  So 
that  within  forty  years  after  its  first  settlement,  the  most  valuable  part  of 
the  town  was  thus  divided.  But  in  order  to  prevent  this  land  from  falling 
into  the  hands  of  mere  speculators  instead  of  permanent  citizens,  which  was 
the  end  desired,  it  was  voted  at  a  public  meeting,  held  September  7,  1646. 
that  every  man  holding  a  lot  should,  within  six  months,  build  a  habitable 
house  upon  it,  or  if  found  in  default  should  forfeit  his  lot  to  the  town. 

Their  aim  in  all  their  public  transactions  seems  to  have  been  to  lay  a 
right  foundation  and  build  upon  it  a  permanent  and  prosperous  settlement. 
To  this  end,  in  the  very  beginning,  they  fortified  the  title  derived  from  their 
patent  by  repeated  Indian  purchases,  both  by  the  town  and  by  the  Gover- 
nor. Their  evident  desire  was  to  leave  no  just  ground  for  hostility  on  the 
part  of  the  original  owners  of  the  land. 


104  Graves  end)  L.  /..  Old  and  New.  [July, 

This  honorable  dealing  at  first  secured  to  the  people  the  good-will  and 
friendship  of  their  Indian  neighbors.  But  when  at  length  the  ill-advised 
policy  of  Governor  Kieft  brought  upon  the  colonies  the  Indian  war  of 
1645-44,  Gravesend  received  her  full  share  of  suffering  therefrom.  During 
these  perilous  times,  the  people,  poorly  prepared  for  such  hostilities,  were 
made  to  feel  the  force  oi  frequent  and  severe  Indian  raids.  In  order  to 
put  themselves  in  the  best  possible  condition  of  defence,  each  man  was 
compelled,  by  a  town  ordinance,  to  du  his  share  of  building  and  keeping  in 
repair  the  palisade  defences  ;  and  also  to  keep  constantly  on  hand  one  gun 
and  a  quantity  of  powder  and  lead,  to  be  prepared  for  any  sudden  emer- 
gency. For  some  reason,  the  house  of  Lad}-  Moody,  according  to  Gover- 
nor Winthrop,  seems  to  have  been  the  principal  point  of  attack  by  the 
Indians.  On  one  occasion  hei  house  was  ably  defended  by  forty  men 
(probably  all  the  able-bodied  men  in  the  settlement),  some  of  whom,  the 
old  records  say,  were  expert  Indian  fighters.  Nicholas  Stillwell  was  the 
leader  of  the  brave  band.  On  another  occasion,  being  greatly  outnum- 
bered by  the  enemy,  the  inhabitants  were  obliged  to  flee  to  Amersfort 
(Flatlands)  for  protection,  where  they  remained  till  the  danger  was  past. 
But  a  treat}-  of  peace  was  soon  formed  with  Pennowits.  the  crafty  chief  of 
the  Canarsies,  which  ended  for  the  time  all  open  hostilities.  Ten  years 
forerj  however,  occurred  the  fiercest  attack  from  the  Northern  Indians  that 
the  town  had  yet  sustained. 

Dr.  Strong  relates  that,  in  1655,  a  large  body  of  Indians  from  the  north, 
following  the  course  of  the  Hudson  River  toward  the  south,  left  death  and 
desolation  in  their  tiack  along  the  Jersey  shore  ;  then  crossed  over  to 
Staten  Island  and  here  killed  sixty  seven  white  settlers,  beside  destroying 
much  property;  they  then  crossed  the  Narrows  and  made  a  fierce  attack 
upon  Gravesend.  The  inhabitants  were  unable  to  drive  away  the  invaders, 
bat  bravely  stood  their  ground  until  relieved  by  a  detachment  of  soldiers 
sent  from  Fort  Amsterdam.  This  seems  to  have  ended  the  Indian  troubles 
in  which  the  people  of  Gravesend  were  concerned. 

Town  Organization. — The  first  patent  of  the  town  granted  to  the 
people  the  privilege  to  elect  a  ■•  bod}- politique  and  civil  combination.''  and 
also  to  ''nominate,  elect  and  choose  three  of  the  ablest,  approved  honest 
men,"  to  act  as  Justices  in  the  town  court.  These  nominations,  however, 
were  to  be  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Director-General. 

In  1646  the  people  availed  themselves  of  this  privilege,  and  thus 
effected  a  town  organization. 

The  three  men  first  elected  and  so  confirmed  were  Lieut.  Geo.  Baxter, 
Edward  Brown,  and  William  Wilkins.  Sergeant  James  Hubbard  was 
chosen  "  schout,"  and  John  Tilton  "town  dark,"  with  a  salary  of  one 
guilder  (forty  cents)  from  each  inhabitant  of  the  town.  Thus  early  were 
they  organized,  and  fully  equipped  for  any  public  business  that  might  come 
before  them. 

The  first  town  meetings  were  held  monthly  in  some  private  house,  and 
the  people  were  called  together  by  the  beat  of  the  drum,  as  the  following 
town  order  will  indicate  :  "  May  3,  1652,  voted  to  hold  regular  town  meet- 
ings the  last  Saturday  of  every  month  at  ye  house  of  James  Hubbard,  at 
12  m.j  and  ye  drum  to  beat  an  hour  before  ye  time."  A  "  speaker"  was  also 
chosen  at  every  meeting,  "  for  their  more  orderly  proceedings,  peace,  and 
credit." 

A  fine  of  5  guilders  ($2.00)  was  also  imposed  upon  all  persons  who 


1SS5.J  Gravesend,  L.  /.,  Old  and  New.  1 05 

should  be  absent  without  excuse.  At  a  later  date  town  meetings  to  meet 
special  emergencies  were  assembled  by  the  beating  of  the  drum,  and  meet- 
ings for  regular  town  business  by  the  blowing  of  the  horn.  It  was  also 
agreed  at  this  time  that  six  men  should  form  a  quorum  for  the  transaction 
of  all  town  business. 

Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics. — Very  early  in  their  history  they  mani- 
fested a  commendable  interest  in  the  careful  keeping  and  preservation  of 
their  records,  not  only  for  their  own,  but  also  for  the  benefit  of  future 
generations. 

A  Bureau  of  Vital  Statistics  was  established  as  early  as  1650.  The 
authority  for  its  organization  was  a  town  order  of  that  year  which  runs  as 
follows  :  "  It  was  also  agreed  unto  that  all  burials  and  marriages,  and  for 
all  that  shall  be  born,  notice  should  be  taken  thereof  and  recorded."  The 
first  entry  was  dated  August  2d,  and  records  the  marriage  of  Peter  Simson, 
"by  public  authority."  For  the  first  fifty  years  marriages  were  performed 
by  a  magistrate.  But  those  intending  marriage,  whether  by  magistrate  or 
minister,  must  first  have  the  banns  published  from  the  nearest  church  as 
prescribed  by  law. 

The  ordinary  proprieties  of  life  were  sometimes  overlooked  in  these 
early  times,  as  the  following  case  would  indicate.  Under  the  record  of 
deaths  and  Hlarria^es  we  find  the  following:  "September  9,  1650,  Thomas 
Cornwell  deceased  and  was  buried."  The  very  next  entry  and  bearing 
precisely  the  same  date,  records  the  speedy  consolation  of  the  widow  by 
her  remarriage  to  John  Morris.  There  may  be  a  mistake  in  the  date  of 
the  record,  but  if  not  they  must  certainly  have  waived  the  legal  formality 
of  publishing  the  banns. 

We  find  also  from  their  history  that  they  were  not  entirely  free  from  the 
follies  and  vices  that  are  common  to  these  later  days.  But  they  made  an 
heroic  struggle  to  establish  an  honorable  reputation,  and  preserve  the 
peace  and  good  order  of  the  settlement.  Intemperance,  slander,  and  Sab- 
bath desecration  were  among  the  things  that  called  for  early  and  special 
legislation.  A  license  law  was  passed  providing  that  not  more  than  one 
pint  of  liquor  should  be  sold  to  any  white  person  at  one  time;  and  a  strin- 
gent prohibitory  law  preventing  its  sale  to  the  Indians  under  the  penalty 
of  fifty  guilders  for  the  first  offence  and  one  hundred  for  the  second. 

The  Sunday  law,  dated  in  1675.  seems  to  be  a  declaration  against  Sab- 
bath-breaking by  the  Governor, .and  is,  like  the  license  law,  decisive  upon 
the  point  at  issue.  It  shows  the  Puritan  strictness  with  which  they  guarded 
the  sanctity  of  the  Sabbath.  The  law  reads  as  follows  :  "  Whereas,  There 
is  a  prohibition  express  by  an  order  from  the  Governor  of  all  such  exer- 
cises upon  ye  first  day  of  ye  week  as  gunning,  horse  racing,  bail  playing, 
nine  pins,  excessive  drinking,  ryotting,  with  other  ye  like  which  greatly 
tends  to  ye  dishonor  of  God,  the  hindrance  of  many  from  and  in  religious 
duties  to  ye  reproach  of  yc  Government,  and  ye  shame  of  ye  place,  for  the 
preventing  of  which  the  officers  of  the  town  according  to  their  dutye 
have  given  due  notice  that  what  person  soever  shall  in  the  like  transgress, 
shall  pay  10  shillings  and  answer  it  before  the  Governor.  This  act  pro- 
claimed the  13  of  8  month,  1675." 

Does  the  present  condition  of  things  with  regard  to  the  Sabbath  indi- 
cate any  advancement  from  the  religious  carefulness  of  those  early  days? 
Prosecutions  for  the  violation  of  these  laws  were  not  uncommon,  as,  for  ex- 
ample, Thomas  Whitlock  and  John  Gregg  were  presented  before  the  Town 


106  Gravesend,  L.  /.,  Old  and  New.  [Jllh'> 

Court  for  buying  and  selling  land  on  the  first  day  of  the  week.  The  defend- 
ants failed  to  remember  the  transaction  ;  nevertheless  the  Court  ordered 
the  sale  declared  void,  and  fined  each  ten  shillings  and  cost  of  court. 

Perhaps,  however,  the  most  common  offence  with  which  the  Town  Court 
was  called  upon  to  deal  was  slander.  It  would  be  unjust  to  suppose  that 
the  offenders  formed  any  large  portion  of  the  little  colony  ;  for  only  a  few 
names  appear,  and  these  repeat edly,  as  guilty  of  this  vice.  Sometimes 
sentence  was  severe  in  aggravated  cases  ;  and  again  was  settled  by  a  simple 
apology  from  the  defendant.  The  law  allowed  no  trilling  with  a  man's 
private  affairs.  In  1650  Nicholas  Stillwell  brought  an  action  against 
Thomas  Applegate  for  saying,  "  if  plaintiff's  debts  were  paid  he  would  have 
little  left."  As  he  had  nothing  to  say  to  the  grave  charge,  the  Court  ad- 
monished him  and  fined  him  twelve  guilders  and  costs.  Judgment,  too, 
was  pronounced  without  respect  of  person,  and  female  gossips  received  no 
better  treatment  at  the  hands  of  the  law  than  their  male  companions.  In 
the  case  of  Ann  Goulder,  evidently  an  old  offender,  found  guilty  of 
slander,  she  was  sentenced  to  li  stand  in  irons  half  an  hour  with  a  paper  on 
her  breast  declaring  her  to  be  a  public  disturber  of  the  peace,  and  if  she 
give  any  further  trouble,  she  to  be  put  out -of  ye  town." 

But  these  are  some  of  the  minor  offences  that  occupied  the  attention 
anrl  trirr]  the  patience  of  the  Court,  and  the  cases  might  be  almost  indefinitely 
multiplied.  Here,  however,  is  a  more  serious  charge.  Thomas  Applegate, 
so  often  in  trouble,  was  charged  with  slandering  Governor  Stuyvesant,  by  say- 
ing that  he  M took  bribes."  He  was  brought  before  the  Town  Court  in  1650, 
found  guilty,  and  the  following  is  the  sentence  :  £<  The  Court,  convinced  by 
the  evidence,  that  he  has  spoken  the  said  words,  which  are  so  contrary  to  all 
rules  and  laws  divine  and  human,  to  scandalize  and  speak  evil,  especially 
of  the  Governor,  do  adjudge  that  the  said  Applegate  do  deserve  to  have  his 
tongue  bored  through  with  a  red-hot  iron,  and  to  make  public  acknowledge 
of  his  great  transgression  therein,  and  never  to  have  credit  or  belief  in  any 
testimony  or  relation  he  shall  make  either  in  court  or  country,  and  for  the 
execution  of  the  said  sentence  do  refer  him  to  the  mercy  of  the  Governor." 
Upon  sentence  being  pronounced  the  culprit  confessed  his  guilt,  asked 
forgiveness  of  the  Governor,  and  begged  the  Court  to  intercede  for  him. 
We  have  every  reason  to  believe,  that  through  the  kindness  of  the  tendei- 
hearted  Dutch  Governor,  the  tongue  of  the  slanderer  (?)  escaped  the 
judicial  perforation,  and  that  the  remainder  of  the  sentence  was  also  re- 
mitted. 

The  Court  of  Sessions  was  removed  from  Flatbush  to  Gravesend  in 
166S,  where  it  remained  for  seventeen  years,  when  in  1685,  by  act  of  the 
second  Colonial  Assembly,  it  was  removed  again  to  Flatbush,  as  being 
more  central  and  convenient  for  the  transaction  of  county  business.  The 
old  record-book  of  this  Court  while  in  Gravesend  is  now  carefully  pre- 
served in  the  Register's  Office  in  Brooklyn. 

•  But  for  lack  of  time,  and  lest  I  weary  your  patience,  I  must  pass  over 
many  interesting  items  of  history  during  the  eighteenth  century,  and 
only  mention  one  or  two  revolutionary  incidents  which  may  bear  re- 
peating. .  • 

The  landing  o(  the  British  forces,  August  22,  1776,  before  the  battle 
of  Long  Island,  was  made  at  Gravesend  Bay,  within  a  mile  of  the  village, 
-through  which  the  army,  under  command  of  Lord  Cornwallis,  passed  on 
its  way  to  Flatbush.     A  detachment  of  British  soldiers  made  an  encamp- 


18S5.]  Gravesend,  L.  /,  Old  and  New.  107 

ment  for  some  time  in  the  large  farm-yard  of  Joost  Stillwell,  which  is  now 
owned  by  his  grandson,  Nicholas  R.  Stillwell.  The  old  homestead  of  that 
day  is  still  standing,  and  in  excellent  preservation.  The  old  barn  has 
upon  its  sides  to-day  the  identical  shingles  which  covered  it  when  the 
British  encamped 'before  it. 

During  the  Revolution  the  freebooters  Heyler  and  Marriner  were  a 
terror  to  the  tories  in  the  neighborhood  of  New  York,  and  no  doubt,  in 
their  questionable  way,  materially  aided  the  American  cause.  Heyler's 
most  brilliant  exploit  was  the  capture  of  a  British  sloop  of  war  of  twenty 
tons,  off  Coney  Island.  He  surprised  the  captain  and  crew,  while  they  were 
off  their  guard,  and  took  them  all  prisoners  without  resistance.  A  few  articles 
were  removed,  and  the  ship  fired.  There  were  on  board  $40,000,  and 
other  valuable  articles,  all  of  which  were  lost.  It  is  said  that  the  Captain, 
while  being  conveyed  to  the  American  headquarters,  loudly  lamented  his 
folly  and  carelessness. 

In  the  war  of  18 12  Gravesend  furnished  some  fifteen  or  twenty  men, 
who  did  good  service  for  their  country  ;  the  last  one,  Evert  Stellenwerf, 
died  in  March,  1883,  having  reached  the  ripe  age  of  ninety-seven  years. 

The  following  is  a  partial  list  of  those  who  served  :  Richard  Stillwell, 
Nicholas  Stillwell,  Rutgert  Stillwell,  Rutgert  Stillwell,  2d,  Garret  Will- 
iamson, Isaac  Van  Dvck,  Henrv  Van  Dyck,  John  Donly,  Rem.  Van 
Cieet,  Coert  .Lake,  Hendrick  Van  Cleef,  Evert  Stellenwerf,  and  Stephen 
Ryder. 

Some  amusing  anecdotes  are  told  of  their  camp-life  in  Brooklyn.  The 
following  I  received  from  a  lineal  descendant  of  one  of  the  partici- 
pants :  The  soldiers  had  looked  with  envious  eyes,  for  a  long  time,  upon  a 
flock  of  geese  that  were  wont  to  pasture  near  the  camp  ;  and  they  longed 
for  a  change  of  diet  from  the  common  soldier's  fare.  In  order  to  accom- 
plish this  end,  therefore,  a  man  named  Conklin,  full  of  fun  and  as  fruitful 
in  expedients,  procured  a  fish-hook  and  line,  and,  having  baited  his  hook, 
sallied  forth  among  the  ilock,  trailing  it  behind  him.  The  old  gander  of 
the  flock,  seeing  the  rare  opportunity  for  a  relish,  embraced  it  without  un- 
necessary delay.  His  object  accomplished,  Conklin  started  upon  a  run 
for  the  camp,  the  gander  following  with  outspread  wings  and  at  an  equal 
pace.  The  old  lady  who  owned  the  geese,  seeing  the  man  running  and 
the  goose  in  full  chase,  but  not  observing  the  strong  attractive  power  that 
compelled  the  following,  cried  after  him  :  "  Don't  be  afraid,  my  good  man, 
he  won't  hurt  you."  Although  thus  kindly  assured,  the  soldier  continued 
to  flee  and  the  goose  to  pursue,  till  both  were  lost  in  the  camp. 

In  the  first  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  years,  as  we  have  seen,  the 
numerical  growth  of  the  town  was  exceedingly  slow.  It  would  be  inter- 
esting to  show  this  by  the  census  at  different  periods  if  time  would  permit. 
But  we  will  only  state  two  or  three  facts  in  this  connection.  From  1700 
to  1738  there  was  an  increase  of  only  64  persons,  including  both  whites 
and  blacks.  For  the  next  hundred  years  there  was  a  gain  of  only  427.  In 
1864  there  were  only  99  voters ;  this  present  year  (1885)  we  have  over 
1,000,  a  gain  of  over  900  in  twenty  years.  We  can  see  now  how,  for  more 
than  two  hundred  years,  the  town  seemed  to  sleep,  having  just  vitality 
enough  to  live,  but  none  to  grow.  The  modern  Gravesend  dates  its  birth 
within  the  last  ten  or  twelve  years. 

How  a  place  so  near  the  centre  of  our  nation's  social  and  commercial 
life,  with  the  endless  music  of  old  Ocean's  roar  within   constant  hearing, 


Io8  Gravesend,  L.  I.,  Old  and  New.  [Jllty> 

and  the  refreshing  sea-breeze  bringing  health  and  long  life  to  its  inhabitants, 
could  remain  so  long  undeveloped.,  is  among  the  mysteries.  But  the  won- 
der to-day  is  at  the  position  of  importance  and  influence  which  the  old 
town  has  reached  almost  at  one  mighty  stride.  The  superior  advantages 
for  health,  rest,  and  recreation  offered  by  Coney  Island  ;  her  excellent  sea- 
bathing and  fine  hotels,  have  made  this  resort  deservedly  popular  with  the 
toiling  multitudes  of  the  neighboring  cities,  who  find  here  just  the  needed 
breathing-place  to  afford  relief  from  the  wearing  confinement  of  city  life. 
Six  railroads  and  several  steamboat  lines  are,  in  summer  time,  taxed  to 
their  utmost  to  carry  the  crowds  who  seek  to  forget  the  heat  and  burden 
of  the  day  in  the  cool  breeze  of  the  ocean,  and  the  amusements  there  fur- 
nished. 

Beautiful  cottages  are  springing  up  in  every  available  place  near  the 
water;  and  many  excellent  families  from  the  city  are  making  here  not 
only  their  summer  residence,  but  their  permanent  home. 

Land  has  rapidly  increased  in  value,  and  the  demand  is  much  greater 
than  the  supply  now  in  market.  But  another  and  very  strong  inducement 
to  permanent  settlement  is  the  low  rate  of  taxation.  Gravesend  is  doubt- 
less to-day  one  of  the  richest  towns  in  the  United  States. 

The  recent  sales  of  her  public  lands  at  Coney  Island  (only  a  few  years 
o<r0  mnsuWpd  almost  worthless  sand-hills)  have  brought  to  her  credit  al- 
most $700,000.  Using  the  income  of  this  vast  amount  to  defray  the  regu- 
lar town  expenses  makes  the  taxes  merely  nominal;  and  thus  affords  large 
inducement  for  men  of  means  to  go  up  and  possess  the  land.  Broad 
avenues  have  also  been  opened  from  the  city  to  the  ocean,  the  most  noted 
of  which  is  Ocean  Parkway,  a  continuation  of  Prospect  Park,  five  and  a 
half  miles  to  the  sea,  affording  one  of  the  finest  drives  the  country  can 
produce. 

But  with  all  these  advantages,  we  do  not  claim  a  perfect  community 
where  law  and  order  reign  without  interruption.  It  cannot  be  expected 
that,  where  so  many  thousands  gather  daily,  everything  detrimental  to  the 
peace  and  good  order  of  the  community  can  be  rigidly  excluded.  Wher- 
ever people  congregate  in  such  large  numbers  there  are  sure  to  be  in- 
fluences at  work  more  or  less  demoralizing.  But  I  have  no  doubt  that  in 
time  such  police  and  sanitary  regulations  will  be  inaugurated  as  will  make 
Coney  Island  one  of  the  most  reputable  and  desirable,  as  it  is  now  the 
most  popular,  sea-side  resort  in  the  country. 

Although  Gravesend  was  originally  settled  by  the  English,  as  we  have 
seen,  yet  being  surrounded  by  Dutch  settlers,  the  latter  naturally  crowded 
in  upon  them,  until  at  length,  perhaps  within  a  hundred  years,  the  town 
became  more  Dutch  than  English.  The  principal  church  in  town  is  the 
Reformed  (Dutch)  Church,  whose  history  would  be  exceedingly  interesting 
had  we  time  and  space  to  give  it. 

Of  all  the  early  settlers  who  came  with  Lady  Moody,  but  few  have  left 
in  town  any  descendants  to  perpetuate  their  names.  The  following  facts 
concerning  the  more  prominent  ones  we  have  found,  for  the  most  part, 
among  the  old  town  records  :  for  some  items,  however,  we  are  indebted  to 
the  late  Tunis  G.  Bergen. 

Lady  Moody,  as  before  mentioned,  died  in  the  place  she  founded  in 
the  early  part  of,  1659.  Her  son,  Sir  Henry,  after  selling  his  estate  in 
Gravesend,  moved  to  Virginia,  where  he  died  at  the  house  of  Colonel 
Mowritson,  at  what  date  we  cannot  ascertain. 


18S5.]  Gravesend.  L.  I.,  Old  and  New.  109 

John  Tiltonwas  a  man  of  considerable  influence  among  his  associates  ; 
he  was  arrested  several  times  for  entertaining  the  Quaker  preachers,  and 
on  one  occasion,  through  the  influence  of  Governor  Stuyvesant,  was  ordered 
to  leave  town  ;  but  the  order  was  never  executed.  He  was  town  clerk 
four  years  from  1650,  and  in  1674  was  magistrate.  He  leaves  no  represen- 
tatives here,  his  children  having  moved  to  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.,  where 
their  descendants  still  live.     He  died   in  Gravesend   in  1688.     In  his  will, 

dated  January  15,  1687,  he  leaves 

to  the  town  of  Gravesend  a  piece 

of  ground  for  a  burial-place,  as  the 

S~~  ^d^fo"      wiU  reads  :   '<  For  all  persons  in  y 

^^—^      *%S^&At%>  everlasting  truth   of  >e   gospel,  as 

occasion    serves,   forever   to    have 

and  to  hold  and  make  use  of   to 

bury  their  dead  there."      This  spot   of  ground,  with  some  later  additions, 

is  still  used   for   the  sacred  purpose  to  which  it  was  originally  devoted  by 

the  will  of  the  owner. 

Ralph  Gardel!  left  no  children,  so  far  as  .we  know.  He  died  before 
March,  1689.  William  Goulder,  another  of  the  patentees,  was  town 
clerk  in  1662,  ensign  in  1665  and  1673,  and  magistrate  in  1679.  He  sold 
Lio  property  in  Gravesena  in  1692  <jr  1093  to  Garret  Sinker,  and  moved 
with  many  other  of  the  settlers  of  Gravesend  to  Monmouth  County,  N.  J. 

Probably  the  two  most  influential  men  with  Lady  Mood)',  were  Lieu- 
tenant  George   Baxter   and    Ser- 
geant James  Hubbard.  J^\  & 

Baxter  was  Secretary  of  New         r      J  ^^ 

Netherlands,  in   1642    and  1647;        LfiJ£/*%        ^  &•**  £  &  A /J* 
was  magistrate    in   Gravesend  in  Ax  IAJ  ^kjje&a?  J>>^<&-  L    '^/^ 

1650-51-53  ;  he  finally  emigrated      /f 
to  the  West  Indies.  ^ 

James  Hubbard,  the  ancestor  of  the  Kings  County  and  New  Jersey 
Hubbards,  came  from  Rutland  County,  England,  and  settled  in  Gravesend 
at  the  time  of  its  settlement.  Here  he  was  magistrate  for  five  years,  and 
held  other  important  offices.  He,  with  Baxter  and  James  G rover,  raised 
the  standard  of  rebellion  against  the  Dutch  authority  in  1655,  proclaiming 
Cromwell  Lord  Protector.  They  failed  in  their  attempt,  however,  and 
were  for  a  time  imprisoned.  It  was  on  this  occasion  that  Lady  Moody 
made  use  of  her  friendship  and  influence  with  Governor  Stuyvesant  for 
their  liberation.  In  every  generation,  from  the  first  settlement,  there  have 
been  one  or  more  of  Hubbard's  descendants  living  in  Gravesend,  and  al- 
most without  exception  every  generation  has  produced  a  "Samuel."  At 
present  there  is  left  but  one  male  representative  of  the  original  emigrant, 
and  his  name  also  is  Samuel.  But  he  is  now  an  old  man,  without  wife  or 
children,  so  that  with  him  the  name  of  Hubbard,  so  far  as  it  represents  the 
Gravesend  branch  of  the  family,  will  in  all  probability  become  forever 
extinct. 

Nicholas  Stillwell,  however,  has  left  a  numerous  posterity,  probably 
more  than  any  other  of  the  original  patentees,  and,  as  in  the  case  of  Hub- 
bard, almost  every  generation  produces  a  Nicholas.  There  arc  now  living 
in  town  representatives  of  the  eighth,  ninth,  and  tenth  generations. 

Antony  Jansen,  the  ancestor  of  the  Johnson  family,  and  one  of  the 
first  landholders,  has  also  left  a  goodly  number  of  descendants,  honest  men 


HO  The  Crawford  Family,  of  Orange  County,  Ar.  Y.  [July, 

and  good  citizens.  We  cannot  help  wondering  sometimes  what  these 
brave,  adventurous  spirits  would  say  if  they  could  now  awake  from  their 
long  sleep,  and  once  more  look  over  the  scenes  of  their  early  labors,  dan- 
gers, and   sufferings.     They  endeavored    to    lay  the   foundation  of  a  wise 

and  honest  government. 
/V    J  *  &  May   their  posterity   as 

j^^<hy^2^^.c/    «^-^»  <r^  /ZK«~  J>  wisely      and      honestly 

^      s,  /  ^^3%^     build  upon  it  ! 

/?•/>       'if    J  I  The  material  changes 

/f'  /^^i  J9       t^iat  nave  keen  wrought 

°  f  J&  Qj>v&&7/f%*'*~   in   all  these   years   past 

""'  J;j  are  as  nothing,  I  venture 

to  predict,  to  what  may 
be  expected  in  the  near  future.  It  requires  no  special  gift  of  prophecy  to 
see  the  time  fast  approaching  when  the  city  of  Brooklyn  shall  throw  her 
motherly  arms  around  the  whole  of  Kings  County,  when  all  the  upland, 
from  the  city  to  the  sea,  shall  be  covered  with  the  homes  of  a  thriving  popu- 
lation, and  when  Gravesend  shall  be  no  longer  a  suburb,  but  a  component 
part  of  the  largest  city  in  the  world. 


THE  CRAWFORD  FAMILY,  OF  ORANGE  COUNTY,  N.  Y. 


By  Charles  B.  Moore. 

I.  James  Crawford,  Sr.,  o(  Scotch  ancestry,  but  perhaps  a  native 
of  Ireland,  married  Mary  Wilkin,  and  left  Ireland  for  America,  about  1718, 
bringing  a  church  certificate,  since  carefully  preserved,  in  these  terms  : 

"  These  are  to  certify  that  James  Crawford  and  his  wife,  Mary  Crawford, 
left  the  Congregation  of  Golen,  in  June.  171S,  free  of  any  known  scandal 
or  church  censure,  being  both  of  them  honest  and  creditable  persons,  so 
they  are  of  blameless  honorable  parentage,  and  may  be  received  in  any 
Presbyterian  congregation  where  Providence  may  order  their  setting. 
Witness  my  hand,  the  ninth  day  of  August,  1718." 

(Signed),  "  Robt.  Colpheart.'' 

Their  family  record  preserves  the  iollowing  account  of  children  : 
II.    1.   John,  b.  December  15,  1719. 

2.  James,  b.  January  21,  1722. 

3.  Jane,  b.  March  3,  1724. 

4.  David,  b.  August  11,  1729. 

5.  Samuel,  b.  June  9,  1732. 

6.  Joseph,  b.  February  21,  1734. 

So  many  Presbyterians  of  the  southwest  of  Scotland  took  arms  in 
1715  for  the  son  of  James  II.,  deemed  their  national  prince,  and  were  de- 
feated, and  such  slight  suspicions  sufhced  for  an  arrest  that  the  standing 
and  the  peace  and  future  prospects  of  the  Presbyterians  in  Ireland,  who 
had  originated  from  Scotland,  were  strangely  affected ;  although  they  had 
been  very  peaceable  in  Ireland. 

The  removal  of  this  James,  Sr.,  was  doubtless  influenced  by  the 
hostility  which  prevailed.  It  was  before  the  passage  of  the  Toleration  Act 
of  1729.     A  Presbyterian  could  not  be  even  a  school-teacher  without   be- 


1885.]  The  Crawford  Family,  of  Orange  County,  N.  Y.  n\ 

ing  subject  to  fine  and  imprisonment.  Many  came  to  this  country  and 
to  New  York  colony,  as  the  favored  one  of  James,  where  Scotchmen  had 
been  allowed  a  fair  share  of  power.  This  early  Crawford — not  the  first — 
on  arrival  stopped  at  Peekskill,  in  Westchester  County,  probably  with 
Captain  John  McCoy,  and  afterward  removed  to  the  west  side  of  the  Hud- 
son, and  settled  in  Little  Britain,  associating  with  the  followers  of  Colonel 
Charles  Clinton  (see  N.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Record,  vol.  xiii.,  p.  5,  7,  et 
seq.).  His  fifth  sen  was  a  contemporary  of  Alexander,  the  eldest  son  of 
Charles  Clinton  (Id.,  p.  139).  The  "Eager"  ancestor  stopped  some 
years  in  Westchester  County  (see  Eager's  "Hist.,"  p.  256  and  302).  We 
cannot  exactly  trace  the  wife;  but  it  appears  she  was  a  "Wilkin,"  and  it 
can  hardly  be  doubted  that  she  was  connected  with  the  "  Wilkin"  family 
that  was  early  in  Orange  Count}-.  John  Wilkin  obtained  land  there  and 
made  his  will,  dated  July  29,  1752,  naming  four  sons,  John.  George,  Joseph, 
and  Jason,  and  lefc  an  elder  son  William.  A  chancery  suit  about  an 
agreement  for  some  land,  not  conveyed,  perpetuates  their  history  (1  Johns. 
Chy.  Reports,  112).  Edward  Wilkin  was  also  an  early  settler  and  obtained 
land.  Lawyers,  legislators,  and  judges  have  succeeded  and  should  have 
preserved  a  pedigree.  The  name  is  not  common  elsewhere.  Fairbairn 
recognizes  it  in  Kent  County,  Eng.      The  name  Crawford  was  numerous 

ailQ     iJOlcU    ill   o^uiiauu,    cUiG     It    uCCaiil£    liUfflerOuS    1H    .li/ijgiand.    and.    111     thlS 

country.  "Patrick  "  was  at  New  York,  and  owning  land  as  early  as  1700, 
and  married  Catharine  Potter,  in  1703  (Record,  i.,  p.  13).  Our  "  James  " 
started  out  into  new  and  healthy  territory  soon  enough  to  form  a  record 
for  his  descendants,  without  stain.  Fairbairn  names  twenty-four  families, 
for  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  with  arms.  The  motto  "  God  shaw  the 
right,"  has  been  claimed  by  some  of  this  tribe.  Probably  none  but 
Crawfords  claim  it, 

The  officials  of  the  Colony  were  so  well  satisfied  with  the  first  Scotch- 
Irish  pioneers,  that  in  1734  and  later  they  published  invitations  for  more, 
promising  land.  Dr.  O'Callaghan's  list  in  vol.  5,  Mist.  Mag.,  N.  Y.,  1S61, 
p.  302,  contains  none  named  Crawford,  Baikeley,  or  Wilkin.  The  first 
set  who  ventured  were,  perhaps,  more  able  to  come  alone.  The  pioneers 
were  leaders. 

II.  1.  John  Crawford,  the  son  of  James,  Sr.,  we  have  not  traced, 
and  believe  he  may  have  settled  in  Westchester  County,  where  men  of  his 
name  resided,  leaving  wills  dated  in  1763,  1773,  and  1786.  The  earliest 
Crawford  wills  found  are  of  William,  of  East  Chester,  in  1 747?  an<3  Hugh, 
mariner,  of  N.  Y.,  in  1749,  each  leaving  wife  and  children. 

II.  2.  James  Crawford,  son  of  James,  Sr.,  made  a  will  in  1777, 
which  was  proved,  after  the  war,  in  1783.  He  had  over  hve  hundred  acres 
of  land,  and  had  James,  the  son  of  his  brother  Samuel,  living  with  him. 

II.  3.  James  Crawford,  Jr.,  b.  about  1719,  who  lived  until  February 
23,  1802,  aged  eighty-three,  married  Jane,  the  daughter  of  James  Crawford, 
Sr.  She  d.  on  August  14,  1795,  aged  seventy-one..  They  left  a  large 
family : 

III.  1.  Samuel  J.,  b.  December  io,  1750. 

2%   Mary,  b.  May  6,  1752,  who  m.  John  Barkley. 

3.  Elizabeth,  b.  November  27,  1753,  v,Th°  m-  Janies  Barkley. 

4.  Nathan,  b.  July  22,  1755. 

5.  Jonathan,  b.  April  27,  1757. 

6.  David,  b,  February  6,  1759,  d.  November  3,  1S22. 


112  The  Crawford  Family;  of  Orange  County,  N.  Y.  [July, 

7.  Jane,  b.   February  26,  1761,  who  in.   John  Martin,  and  d. 

January  7,  1S27. 

8.  Sarah,  b.  February  n,  1763,  who  m.  Thomas  Barkley,  and 

d.  September  19,  1S26. 

9.  Moses,  b.  March  1,  1765,  who  d.  August  14,  1770. 
10.  Joshua,  b.  May  17,  1767. 

This  James,  Jr..  by  repute  came  to  this  country  about  the  year  1731. 
from  the  county  of  Fermanagh,  in  Ireland,  at  or  near  Enniskillen,  where 
he  was  born  in  the  year  1.71-9.  The  ship  in  which  he  came  arrived  at 
New  York  City  after  a  long  and  tedious  passage,  on  which  the  passengers 
suffered  for  water  and  provisions.  His  father  and  mother  both  perished 
on  the  voyage.  Their  son  Moses  died  in  the  city  of  New  York  on  arrival 
and  was  buried  in  the  burying-ground  belonging  to  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Wall  Street  (see  N.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Record,  iv.,  98).  Andrew  Graham,  a 
passenger  on  the  same  vessel,  by  report,  heard  his  father  offer  the  captain 
of  the  ship  a  guinea  for  a  pint  of  water,  and  it  was  refused.  It  took  long 
to  check  the  cruelty  and  inhumanity  of  overcrowding  vessels  with  helpless 
passengers,  without  food  or  water  sufficient  for  a  long  voyage.  This  James 
was  left,  a  lad  about  twelve  years  of  age,  with  two  sisters,  the  last  of  the 
family.  They  were  brought  up  from  New  York  by  James  McNeal,  to  the 
luwn  of  Montgomery,  Ulster  County,  to  whom  James  became  bound  until 
twenty-one  years  of  age.  McNeal  obtained  a  farm  southeast  of  the  village 
of  Montgomery,  afterward  known  as  the  old  Van  Keuren  farm.  After 
James  had  earned  a  sufficient  sum  he  purchased  a  new  farm  of  Mr.  Nathaniel 
Hill  in  1749,  it  then  having  Indian  wigwams  on  it.  He  encountered  the 
hazards  and  distresses  of  the  French  and  Indian  wars.  The  mountain 
formed  a  barrier  and  protection.  In  1760,  surveys  of  public  lands  were 
made  for  him  and  others.  He  settled  in  the  precinct  of  Hanover,  in  the 
former  county  of  Ulster,  now  in  Orange  County,  formerly  in  the  town  of 
Montgomery,  and  since  1S23  in  the  town  of  Crawford  (named  after  this 
family).      He  became  part  owner  of  an  8,000  acre  tract,  known  as  lot  No. 

4  ;  and  of  one- fifteenth  of  the  undivided  part  of  ihat  tract ;  and  of  lots  Nos. 

5  and   6,  called  the  2,500  acre  tract.      In  1767  his  road  district  was  recog- 
nized (Eager,  231). 

He  made  a  will  dated  May  S,  1775, in  which  he  mentioned  these  tracts, 
and  described  himself  as  James  Crawford,  of  the  precinct  of  Hanover,  in 
the  county  oi  Ulster,  and  Province  of  New  York,  naming  and  providing 
for  his  wife  Jane,  his  sons  Samuel,  Nathan,  Jonathan,  David,  Joshua,  and 
daughters  Mary,  wife  of  John  Barkley,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  James  Barkley, 
Jane,  and  Sarah.  He  named  as  executors  his  son  Samuel,  Wilhelmus 
Weller,  and  William  McBirney  ;  and  the  witnesses  were  James  Fulton, 
Abraham  Dickerson,  and  James  Hill. 

But  he  surviving  many  years,  this  will  was  cancelled,  and  probably 
other  dispositions  were  made.  Three  daughters  married  "  Barkleys," 
the  old  pronunciation  of  the  English,  Berkleys,  some  of  whom  got  into 
Scotland.  See  Barclays  of  Urie,  who  arrived  and  made  a  figure  at  New- 
York  and  in  New  Jersey.  But  before  them,  William  Berkeley,  by  New 
York  license,  on  December  16,  1702,  married  Elizabeth  Randall  (N.  Y.  G. 
and  B.  Record,  i.,  3;  ii.,  120;  hi.,  22;  Holgate's  "  Gen.,"  122,  126; 
Neill's  "Virginia  County  ;"      Hotten's  "  Original  Lists,*'  etc.). 

II.  4.  David  Crawford,  son  of  James,  Sr.,  I.,  b.  August  11,  1729  ; 
living  in  1777,  married,  and  left  children,  including  a  son  Francis,  b.  about 


1885.]  The  Crawford  Family,  of  Orange  County,  N.  Y.  113 

1762,    who   was  a  member   of  Assembly  from  XTlster  County,  in  1796,   re- 
moved to  Xewburgh  in  1S06,  and  d.  April  23,  1S29,  aged  sixty-seven. 

The  "  History  of  Newburg,"  by  E.  M.  Ruttenber,  gives  us  an  account 
of  this  family,  with  a  plate,  at  p.  311. 

II.  5.  Samuel  Crawford,  son  of  James,  Sr.,  b.  1732;  had  a  wife 
named  Anne,  son  Alexander,  and  daughters  Margaret  and  Rachel.  He 
left  a  will  dated  March  17,  1  749,  naming  his  wife  and  children,  and  de- 
scribing himself  of  the  precinct  of  the  Wall- Kill,  in  the  county  of  Ulster. 
Witnesses,  Joseph  Crawford  (doubtless  his  younger  brother,  II.  6),  and 
James  Fulton.  The  will  was  proved  on  January  31,  1767,  before  George 
Clinton,  as  Surrogate. 

III.  1.  Samuel  J.  Crawford,  eldest  son  of  James  Crawford,  Jr.,  mar- 
ried Jane  McCurdy  on  February  29,  1776,  and  lived  until  October  17, 
1S28,  aged  seventy-eight;  then  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
She  was  b.  February  14,  1757.      Their  children,  as  recorded,  were  : 

IV.   1.  Moses,  b.   December   7,  1776,  who   d.  September  iS,  1S35, 
aged  thirty-nine,  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

2.  Mary.  b.  May  12,  1778,  who  d.  November  27,  t S5 7,  a  mem- 

ber of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 

3.  Archibald,  b.  June  7,  17S0,  who  m.  Mary  Barkley,  IV.  10, 

iii  March,  iuo^,  and  had  twelve  cmiureu. 

4.  Jonathan  S.,  b.  April  12,  17S2. 

5.  Sarah,  b.  May  n,  1784,  who  d.  May  23,  1S32,  aged  forty- 

eight. 

6.  Robert  S.,  b.   April   8,  1786.  who   d.   June  10,  183s,  aged 

fifty-two. 

7.  Nancy,  b.  July  22,  1788,  who  m.  Lewis  Brush,  and  d.  April 

1,  1S66,  leaving  several  children. 

8.  Jane,  b.  April  2,  1791,  d.  January  7,  1S27,  aged  thirty-six,  a 

member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 
III.  S.  Thomas  Barkley,  son  of  James  Barkley,  a  farmer,  of  Mont- 
gomery,   Orange   County,   and   member   of  the  Presbyterian   Church,  m. 
Sarah,  dan.    of  James   Crawford,  Jr.,  before   named,  and  lived  until    1821. 
Sh  1  d.  in  1826.     Their  children  were  reported,  as  follows  : 

IV.  9.  James  Barkley,  b.  July  27,  17S0,  who  m.    Ann,  dau.   of 
John  Haines,  and  had  a  large  family. 

10.  Mary  Barkley,  b.   October   18.  17S3,  who  m.   Archibald 

Crawford,  IV.  3. 

11.  David  Barkley,  b.  November  25, 17S5,  who  m.  (1st)  Jane, 

dau.  of  John  Hanmer,  of  Montgomery,  five  children  ;  and 
(20)  Mrs.  Warner,  two  children. 

12.  John  Barkley,  b.  July  27,  17S7,  who  m.  Martha,  dau.  of 

John  Haines,  and  had  a  large  family  (scattered). 

13.  Jonathan  Barkley,  b.  April   9,  1789,  m.  and  had  a 

son  Jonathan  (Michigan). 

14.  Jane  Barkley,  b.  February  19,  1791,  m.  Nathan   Haines, 

son  of  John,  his  second  wife,  and  had  a  large  family. 

15.  Josiah  Barkley,  b.  January  25,  1793,  m.   Fanny,  dau.  of 

John  Haines,  several  children. 

16.  Margaret    Barkley,    b.    February     10,    1795,    m.    (1st) 

Johnston  Young,  from   Ireland,  five  children  ;  and   (2(\) 
a  Mr.  Harris; 


114         Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.        [July, 

17.  Thomas  Barkley,  b.  December  21,  1797,  m.  Mary,  dau. 

of  Samuel  S.  Crawford,  descended  from  James,  1.  ;  chil- 
dren. 

18.  William  Moffat  Barkley,  b.   December  24,    1799,   d. 

March  12,  1800. 

19.  Elizabeth   Barkley,  b.   May   5,   1S01,  m.  David,  son  of 

James  Arnot,  of  New  Windsor,  a  farmer;  nine  children. 
(Many   of    these  numerous   descendants    have   been  re- 
ported in  Michigan.) 
III.  10.  Joshua  Crawford,  youngest  son  of  James,  Jr.,  II.  3,  m.  Nancy, 
only  dan.  of  William  Crawford,  called  one  of  the  Crawford  family  of  Little 
Britain.     Children  : 

IV.   20.   Henry,  who  d.  when  sixteen  or  seventeen  years  of  age. 

21.  Margaret,  who   m.   Dr.    Charles  Winfield,  and  had  four 

children.      He  survived  her  and  m.  asrain. 

22.  Nathan,  d.  s.  p. 

23.  Francis,  m.    Harriet,  dau.  of  Adam  Dickerson,  of  Mont- 

gomery, Orange  County  ;  one  dau.,  Nancy  Jane.  He 
d.  January  4,  1S29. 

This  Joshua  by  repute  lived  on  the  old  Crawford  farm  obtained  in 
1740,  where  his  brevier  David,  III.  6.  also  lived,,  and  which  in  1S48  passed 
to  a  branch  of  the  Winnelds. 

The  whole  town  is  described  by  Mr.  Eager  (p.  332),  as  more  elevated 
than  Montgomery,  being  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Shawangunk  Mountains.  He 
does  not  expatiate  so  freely  about  men  of  Scotch  ancestry  as  about  the 
older  denizens  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  The  hills  of  Scotland  produced  many 
who  attempted  to  cultivate  the  "  highlands"  of  Ulster,  first  in  Ireland  and 
afterward  in  New  York  Colony.  "  Westward  "  became  the  march.  We 
have  to  note  the  halting-places.  Five  have  been  members  of  Assembly 
in  New  York.  Thomas  Crawford,  of  New  York,  the  sculptor,  has  been 
named  in  the  Record  (vi.,  p.  127). 


RECORDS  OF  THE-  FIRST  AND  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 
CFIURCHES  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Marriages. 
1756  to  

(Continued  from  page  86.) 
I8l3. 

Elihu  H.  Dunlap  to  Mary  Miller. 
Jacob  Drake  to  Susan  Akerly. 

Egbert  Somerindyk  to  Truth  Hilliard  (widow  Henyens). 
Herman  Le  Roy  to  Julia  Edgar. 
Charles  Buck  to  Catherine  Pomeroy  Bradford. 
William  Payne  (of  Boston)  to  Catherine  Hallett. 
Lewis  Rivers  to  Rachel  Many. 
8.  Erastus  Baldwin  to  Catherine  Morgan. 

Thomas  Stevenson.  Junr,  to  Jane  H.  Seigeant. 
23.   Morris  Bruyn  to  Hetty  Hand.  (47) 

Robert  Stuart  to  Eliza  E.  Sullivan. 


Jan* 

2. 

Jany 

9- 

Jany 

21. 

Feb* 

i5- 

March 

17- 

March 

2  7- 

April 

3- 

May 

8. 

May 

12. 

Tune 

23- 

July 

20. 

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I  I 


RECORDS  OF    THE    REFORMED   DUTCH  CHURCH    IN    THI 
CITY   OF  NEW"  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVI.,  p.  94,  of  The  Recokd.) 
A°  1709.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

March  13.]      Joost    Lynse,    Eliza-  Hester, 
beth  Henijon. 


[320] 

Maart  1 


16. 


20. 


23- 
27. 


3°- 


April 


[321] 
April  6. 


Benjamin     Fonneuil,  Jan. 
Anna  Bureau. 

Alexander  Earn,  Eli-  Anna. 

zabeth  Coning. 
John  Waldron,    Cor-  Jan. 

nelia  Hertenberg. 

Reimer  Tongerlou,  Maria. 

Jannetje  Care. 
Wiliem   Jakson,   An-  Anna. 

tje  Hartmans. 
Wiliem  Krom,  Wv-n-  Abraham. 

tje  Roosaa, 

Johannes  Janse,  An-  Maria. 

na  Lierse. 
Johannes  Narbury,  Annatje. 

Angenietj  e  Pro- 

voost. 
Isaac   Bratt,    Diever-  Frans. 

tje  Wessels. 
Jacob    Kim  me,    Do-  Geertje. 

rathe  de  PI  art. 
Christoffel  Beekman,  Cornelia. 

Maria  de  Eanoy. 

Abraham  Wendel,  Catharina. 

Catharina  de  Kay. 
Jan  Clase  Van  Spare,  Jannetje. 

Mary  tje  du  Chane. 
Jan    Ellin,    Annetje  Jan. 

Flaldron. 

Jeremia  Borres,  Cor-  Jan. 
nelia  Ekkeson. 

Johannes    Frelant,  Martinus. 

Maria  Krigier. 
A  1  e  x  a n  d  e r    Fenix,  Alxander. 

Hester  Van  Vorst. 
Daniel  de   Hart,  Ca-  Baltus. 

tharina  Van  Pelt. 
Thomas  Janse,  May-  Maria. 

ke  Bogert. 


GETUYCEX. 

Pieter  Burgers,   Hester 

Daniel  s,    Wed'-'   van 

Arent  Blom. 
Thomas  Bayeux,  Susanna 

Botidinott,  h.  v.  van 

Charles  d'  aval. 
Arie   Coning,   Maria  Ap- 

pel. 
Johannes    Hartenberg, 

Rachel  Hertenberg,  h. 

v.  van  Wiliem  Grant. 
Lois  Care,  Prudens  FleCi- 

rio. 
Elizabeth  Wessels. 

Abraha  m  Provoost  & 
Jannetje  Myer,  s:  h: 
vrouw. 

Cornelus  de  Peister,  An- 
na Miller. 

Isaac  Gouverneur  &  Sara 
Staats,  s:  h:  vr. 

Bout  Wesselse,  Geertje 
Cornelus. 

Cornelus  Jooste,  Tryntje 
de  Plart,  s:  h:  vrou. 

Jacobus  de  Lanoy,  Ca- 
tharina Beekman,  jonge 
dochter. 

Jacobus  de  Kay,  Lucritia 
Beekman. 

Pieter  Mangelse  &  Jan- 
netje, s:  hs  vrou. 

Jan  Haldron,  Abraham 
Brajor,  Cornelia  Hald- 
ron. 

Jacob  Theunissen  (segge 
tew'isse),  Zara  Ekke- 
son. 

Yede  Myer,  Hanna  Crie- 
giers,  J°  dochter. 

Wiliem  Echt,  Saratje  Kip. 

MathyS  de  Flart,  Jannetje, 
s:  hs  vrouw. 

David  Janse,  Rutje  Wald- 
ron, h:  v:  van  Hendr 
Robert. 


Ii6 


Records  of  the  Refor?ned  Dutch  Church  in  ±\Tcw  York. 


[July 


A*  1709. 


10. 


17. 


24. 


25. 


May  1 


[322 
May  8. 


2.5. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Davidt  Mandeviel,  Davidt. 

M  a  r  r  c  t  j  e    Van 

House. 
Volkert  Heermans,  Luykas. 

Margrietje     Ekke- 

son. 
Jacob  Marius  Groen,  Silvester. 

Maria  Salisbury. 
Davidt  Cosaar,  Styn-  Sftsanna, 

tje  Jores. 

Jacob  Swaan,  Dirkje  Sara, 

Schepmoes. 
Johannes   Dow,    Sara  Femmctje. 

de  Foreest. 
Pieter  Buretel,    Mar- Van    der 

greta  Van  der  Clyf.       Clyf. 
Hendrik   Buys,    Wil-  Jan. 

lempje  Oostrum. 
Johannes     Hooglant  Anneke. 

Junr,   Catharina 

Goedenis. 
Isaac   Garuje,    Eliza-  Jacobus. 

bet  Dublet.' 
Hendrikus  Van  Gel-  Annatje. 

der,  Femmetje  Wy- 

nants. 
Cornelus    Kierstede,  Anna  Maria 

Zara  Elsewarth. 

Dirk    Koek,  Susanna  Thomas. 

Crigiers. 
Johannes     Myer,  Jacob. 

Tryntje  Dal  sen. 
Johannes      Rosevelt,  Margreta. 

Heiltje  Sjoertz. 

Abraham   Aalstem,  Harmanus. 

Mane  tje  Jans. 
Johannes  de  Pel's ter,  William. 
Maria  Banker. 


Cornelus  Turk,  Eliza-  Aaltje. 
beth  van  Schaik. 

Abraham  de  Peister,  John. 
Catharina  de  Peis- 
ter. 

*  The  parents  of  the  child. 


GETUYGEN. 


Eduard     Bl< 
Dancing. 


Mary  tje 


N  ic  o  1  a  as  Somerendyk, 

Grietje  Heermans. 

Jacobus  Kip,  Antje  Wes- 
sels. 

Riithgert  Jorisse  V. 
Hoorn,  en  Neeltje 
Vegte,  s:  huys  vrouw. 

Pieter  Van  Ti'lburg,  Eli- 
zabeth, s:  hs  vrouw. 

Parent  de  Foreest,  Catha- 
rina Dow,  YVed\ 

Mr  Obeno,  Maria  Van 
der  Clyf. 

Isaac  Anderson,  Pruden- 
cia,  s.  hs  vrouw. 

Johannes  Hooglant  Senr, 
Rebecca  Goederus, 
Wed. 

De  ouders  vant  hetkint 
selve.* 

Jacob  Swaan,  Helena 
Van  Gelder,  J°  docht: 

Clement  Elsewarth,  Anna 

M  aria    Elsewarth,   J° 

doch. 
Jonathan    Main    &    Sara 

Koek,  s.  hs  vrow. 
Hendrik   Myer,    Wyntje, 

s.  h.  vr. 
Olphert    Sjoertz,  Hilletje 

Rosevelt. 

Evert  Pels,  Tryntje  Aal- 
stein,  jon.  docht: 

Willm  Banker  &  Pierre  d, 
Peister  tot  Amsterdam, 
Catharina  de  Peister, 
Jn<. 

Adriaan  Van  Schaik,  He- 
lena Turk,  hs  vr  van 
Johannes  Burger. 

John  Lovelace  &  Thomas 
Cockerill.  Johanna  de 
Peister  tot  Amster- 
dam. 


1SS5.]         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  Neiv  York 
A"  1709. 


I  1 


29. 


Juny  5. 
8. 
dito  12. 

July  3- 


IO. 

IT- 


b23j 
July  17. 


20. 

24. 
27- 


31 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Philip  Daily,   Corne-  Anneke. 

Ha  Van  Gelder. 
Chasparus  Blank,  An-  Elizabeth. 

genietje  Post. 
Jeremi  a  5    Maney,  Anna  Mag- 

Margreta  Finding.       dalena. 

Biirger  Mantis,  Geer-  Jan. 

truy  Korse. 
Louwerens  Barentse,  Barent. 

Hester  Jans. 
H e n  drik   Van  der  Johannes. 

Heui,    Marretje 

Myer. 
Joost   Soy,   Sara  Van  Joost. 

Thienhove. 

Eduard    Blagge,    Jo-  Benjamin, 
hanna  Vickers. 

Adolf  de  Groof,  Ra-  Marica.' 

chel  Goederus. 
Johannes  Van  Kleek,  Tryntje. 

Aaltje  Bosch. 

John   Thoeb  ale  s,  Steven. 

Aefje  Van  Hoorn. 
Hanne  Bensing,  Aal-  Victoor. 


tie  Bickers. 
Michiel  Basset,  Hele-  Rachel. 
na  Van  Aalst. 

Burger  Hendrikse,  Davidt. 

Marytje  Romme. 
Jacobus    de    Lanoy,  Cornelia. 

Anna  Kloppers. 
Steven  Fidet,  Jezabel  Janneije. 

Clement. 
Jacobus    Mol,    Lidia  Johanna. 

j3cobz. 
Anthony  Lippenar,  Anthony. 

Elizabeth  de  Klein. 
Michiel  Stevens,  Re-  Abraham. 

vertje  Mol. 
Andries     Marschalk,  Isaac. 

Elizabeth  Van  Gel- 
der. 
Augustus  10.    Isaac  Bedlo,  Susanna  Maria. 

Brajor. 
14.  John    Mann,     Eliza-  Jan. 

beth  Van  Deurse. 


GETUYGEN. 

Joh  a  n  nes  Van  Gelder, 
Elizabeth  Marschalk. 

Lodewyk  Post,  Catlyntje, 
hs  v.  van  Cornelus  Post. 

Daniel  Odee,  Anna  Fin- 
gang,  huys  vr.  van  Jae- 
mes  Mann  v. 

Burger  Davids,  Marereta 
Smith. 

Reimer  Tongerloe,  Ma- 
rytje Nicolas. 

Abraham  Provoost,  Ma- 
ry tje  de  Mill. 

Xicola'as  Van  Thienhove, 
Cornelia  Van  Varik, 
jon:  docht. 

Samuel  Blagge,  A  n  t  j  e 
O  o  s  te  r  h  a  v  e,  huys  vr. 
van  Pieler  \\  esselse. 

Johannes  Hooglant,  JnT, 
TrVntje  Kokers. 

Johannes  Bosch.  Tryntje 
Van  Kleek,  huys  vr.  van 
Barent  Van  Kleek. 

Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Vroutje 
Santvoort. 

Vicktoor  Bikkers,  Eliza- 
beth Bensing. 

Isaac  Bedlow,  Belitje  Bas- 
tiaanse. 

Cornelus  Rommen,  Antje 
Hendriks. 

Abraham  de  Lanov,  Mar- 
grietje  Kloppers. 

Isaac  Kip  &  Svn  hs  v. 
Sara  de  Mill. 

Thomas  Statom  &  Aaltje 
s.  hs  vroiiw. 

Leonard  de  KleVn,  Su- 
sanna Leslaar,  5.  h.  v. 

Hendrik  Van  Pelt,  Mar- 
retje Koninz. 

Harmanus  Van  Gelder, 
Hester  Rome. 

Michiel  Basset  &  Helena, 

s:  huys  vroiiw. 
Eduard  Mann,  Catharina 

Van  Deurse,  Catharina 

Van  Zant. 


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[July 


A"  1709. 


21. 


28. 

Septemb:  2. 


r?24l 


OUDERS. 

Frederik  Willemse, 
Marytje  Waldrom. 

Willem  Ecbt,  Marre- 
tje  Van  Dyk. 

Johannes  Bant,  Wil- 
lemyntje  Phillipz. 

Balthazar    de    Hart, 

Margreta  Mauritz. 
Isaac  Boele,  Cathari- 

na  Waldrom. 
Isaac    Gouverneur, 

Sara  Staats. 
Theunis    Van    Pelt, 

Elsje  Hendrix. 
Johannes    Van    Gel- 

der,  Aefje  Roos. 


KINDERS. 

Daniel. 

Annatje. 

Pieter. 

Margrietje. 

Catharina. 


Margreta. 


Theunis. 
Aefje. 


6. 

Willem   Van  de  Wa-  Jannetje. 

ter,  Aefje  Ringo. 

Johannes  Turk,  Antje  Cornelus. 

Cornells. 

Pieter    Masse,   Anna  Pieter. 

Vinjo. 

n. 

C  h  a  rl  e  s  Cromlyn,  Maria  Anna, 

Hanna  Singelar. 

18. 

Jan  Van  Beuren,  Ma-  Pieter. 

rytje  Myers. 

Abraham    Vreden-  Margrietje. 

burg,   Ezabel    Per- 

tel. 

Wessel  Wessels^,  Ma-  Tryntje. 

ria  Tenyk. 

Jan    Smit  h,    Judith  Johannes. 

Oiitmans. 

28. 

Dirk  Philipse  Conyn,  PrVntje. 

Rachel  Andriesse. 

October  2. 

Robberd  Bossie,   Ca-  Robberd. 

tharina  Van  Aren. 

5- 

Theofilus  Knight,  Be-  Thomas. 

litje  Kwik, 

Barnardus  Smith,  An-  Gerardus. 

natje  Colevelt. 

GRTUYGEN, 

Jan  de  Lamontagne,  Sara 

Waldrom. 
Pieter  Van  Dyk,  Marytje 

Kip. 
Davidt    Provoost,    Jona- 

tham    Soon,    Judith 

Bant,  Wedc. 
Pouwelus  Moiiritz,  Grie- 

tje  Mouritz. 
Jacob  Boele,  Sara  Wald- 
rom. 
Isaac  de  Riemer,  Catlyn- 

tje  Staats. 
Mangel  Janse  Rol,  Antje 

zyn  hs  vrouw. 
Jacob    Hassing,   Pieter 

Roos  &  Willempje,  syn 

huys  vrouw. 

Dirk  Bensing,  Jnr;  Mary- 
tje Tibout. 

Cornelus  Klaase,  Helena 
Turk,  h.  v.  van  Johan- 
nes Burger. 

Francois  Fincang,  Eliza- 
beth Fingang. 

Doni  Petrus  Dalje,  Gerret 
Duyking,  Maria  Duy- 
king. 

Cornelus  Timmer  &  Cor- 
nelia, Syn  huys  vrouw. 

Johannes  Montanje,  An- 
natje Vredenburg. 

Coenraat     tenyk,      Senr, 

Dievertje  Bratt. 
Johannes  Outman,  Zenr, 

Femmetje   Outn:5,   Syn 

hs  vrouw. 
Johannes  Hooglant,  Jan- 

neke     Andriesse,     syn 

huys  vrouw. 
Gerret  de  Boog,  Willem 

Waldrom,     Jannetje 

Waldrom. 
Pieter  Willemse  Romen, 

Cornelia  Bonting. 
Johannes  Van  Vorst,  Jo- 
hanna Smith,     huys  vr. 

van    Louwerens    Van 

Hoek. 


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A°  I/O9.  OUDERS.  KINDER?. 

Jan  Badron,  Cornelia  Elzebeth. 
Van  Tienhoven. 


9- 
12. 

16. 


[325] 

October  16. 


19. 


23- 


26. 


26. 


Novemb:  2. 

6. 
9- 


Aarnout    Hendrix,  Nicolaas. 

Aaltje  Clase. 
Jacobus  Moene,  Grie-  Margrietje. 

tje  Dirks. 

Pieter  Mangelse,  Jan-  Jenneke. 

neke  du  sjanne. 
Hendrikus  Brevoort,  Anneke. 

Jaquemyntje  Boke. 
Harm  an  us  Van   Gel-  Cornelia. 

der,  Theuntje  The- 

unis. 
Daniel  Kleford,  Jan-  Daniel. 

netje  Karseboom. 

Nicolaao   ?lfcel!,  Kfaiia. 

Aaltje  Hyers. 
Adriaan  Van  Schaik,  Johannes. 

Jannetje  Sammans. 
Johannes     Pouwelse,  Wyntje. 

Elizabeth    Van   de 

Water. 
Jacobus  Cosyn,  Aefje  Gerret. 

Animak. 
Anthony    Kaar,    An-  Willem. 

netje  Huyke. 
Jeremiah  Redding,  Christina. 

Johanna  Percell. 
Johannes  Boke,   Ma-  Abraham. 

rytje  Langet. 
Hendrik   Van    Kort-  Catharina. 

regt,   Catharina 

Krom. 
Jores  Rooms,  Janne-  Evert. 

ke  Bogert. 
Gerret  Harssing,  En-  Barnardes. 

gellje  Burgers. 
Albartus     Coenradus  A 1  b  a  r  t  u  s 

Bosch,     Maria    Coenradus. 

Yeeds. 
Jan    Keiir,    Gerretje  Robberd. 

Kosyn. 
Frans  Buys,  Annatje  Jannetje. 

Waldrom. 
Pieter   de  Mil,  Maria  Anna. 

Van  der  Heul. 
Ruthgerd     Waldrom,  Sara. 

Debora  Pell. 


GETUYGEN. 

Pieter  Amment  &  Nico- 
laas Van  Tienhoven, 
Elizabeth  Van  Tienho- 
ven. 

Thomas  Slalom,  Neeltje 
Claase. 

Cornelus  Van  Deventer, 
en  A  n  t  j  e,  S.  huys 
vrouw. 

Nicolaas  Daley,  Titje  Van 
Pelt. 

Elias  Brevoort,  Catharina 
Bensing. 

Jacob  Massing,  Sara  The- 
unis. 

Jan    Hull,   en  Alexander 

Rossel,   Elizabeth  Sta- 

pelton. 
G  e'r  r  e  t    Hyer,    Marytj  e 

Hyer,  J°.  dochter. 
Elias    Brevoort,     Grietje 

Sammans,  s.  h.  vrouw. 
Johannes    Post,   Maria 

Bayard,  Wede. 

Samuel  Shahaan,  Neeltje 
Cosyn,  s.  h.  vrouw. 

Petrus  Brestede,  Marytj e 
de  Roos. 

Willem  Dobbz,  Cathary- 
na,  syn  huys  vrouw. 

Dirk  Bensen,  Jnr,  Mary- 
tj e  Boke. 

Lowies  Van  Niewenhuy- 
se,  Willem  Krom,  en 
Aegje  Niewenhuyse. 

Johannes  Pouwelse,  en 
Cornelia  Van  Schaik. 

Johannes  Harssing,  Eli- 
zabeth Burger. 

Justes  Bosch,  Gerretje 
Jeeds. 

Samuel  Shahaan,  Neeltje 
Cosyn,  s.  hs  vrouw. 

Ruthgerd  Waldrom,  Ca- 
tharina Philipz. 

Benjamin  Wynkoop,  An- 
na Van  den  Burg. 

Isaac  Boele,  Grietje  Bre- 
stede. 


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A     I70q.  OUDEKS.  KINDERS. 

[326] 

Novemb:  20.  Jacob   Bennet,  Neel-  Johannes. 

tje  Beekman. 
27.  Fredrik  Jacobse  So-  Aaltje. 

merendyk,  Diever- 

tje  Quakkenbos. 
Arie  Koning,  Rachel  Maria. 

Peek. 
December  2.   Jan  Herres,  Jannetje  Johannes. 

Nessepat. 
Jan  Anderson.  Judith  Alxander. 

Jans. 


Jacob  Franse,  An  tje  Maria. 
Haal. 

Jesse    Kip,    Maria  1709,     Jo- 
Stevens,  hannes,  Ge- 
bon  1 1  Oct'. 

Jacob  Harssine;,  Am-  Johannes, 
marentia  Van  Gel-  ' 
der. 

Thomas  Robertz,  Jnr,  Maria. 
Geesje  Liewis. 

Anthony  Byvank,  Hendrikus. 
TheCmtje  Laning. 


11. 


7T 


26. 


A°  1710. 
January  4. 


[y- 


22. 


W  i  1 1  e  m    Waldrom,  Rebekka. 
Annetje  Xagel, 

Hendrikus  Kermer,  Antje. 
Jaquemyntje     Ra- 
ve stein. 

Petrus  Kip,  Immetje  Petrus. 
Van  Dyk. 

Steven  de  Lance,  An-  Susanna. 
na  Van  Kortlant. 

David  Aarsen,  Hele-  Adriana. 
na  Harssing. 

Johannes  Romme,  Evert. 

Antje  Pels. 
Jacobus  Kip,  Catha-  Jacobus. 

rina  de  Hart. 
Johannes  Jooste,  Ju-  Cristina. 

dith  Verwey. 
Steve  Richard,  Maria  Petrus. 

Van  Br  ugh. 
Martin  us     Crigier,  Margrietje. 

Margritje  Dalsen. 


GETUYGEN. 

Adriaan  Man,  Sara  Kip. 

Jacob  Cornelisse,  Claasje 
Quakkenbos. 

Johannes  Peek,  Marretje 

Koning. 
Pieter    Burger,    Maria 

Goederes. 
Jacob   Janse,    Ahasuerus 

Hendriks,    Maria    An- 

driesse. 
Frans  Abramse,  Elizabeth 

Franse. 
Jacobus    Kip,    Catharina 

Kip,    Wede.    van    Joh. 

Kip. 
Harmanus    Van    Gelder, 

Elizabeth  Marschaik. 

Eeonard  Lieuwis,  Janne- 
tje Robber  ts. 

Evert  Byvank,  Wyntje 
Stouten  burg,  s.  hs 
vrouw. 

Tobyas  Stoutenburg,  Jan- 
netje Waldrom. 

Davidt  Kermer,  Judith 
Ravestein. 

Abraham  Keteltas,  Cor- 
nelia Kip,  huys  vrouw 
van  Mathys  Lyster. 

Philippus  Van  Kortlant, 
Susanna  Barbarie. 

Jan  Ewouts,  Maria  Hi- 
bon,  h.  v.  van  Jan  Nar- 
bury. 

Abraham  Holsteyn,  Ma- 
rytje  Kierstede. 

Abraham  Kip,  Maria  Kip. 

Jan  Kanon,  Marytje  Le- 
gran,  s.  hs  v. 

Abraham  Wendal,  Catha- 
rina de  Kay,s.h.vroiiw. 

Johannes  Frelant,  Mar- 
grietje  Smith. 


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29. 


February  1 


A  n  d  r  i  e  s    Harden-  Johannes. 

broek,     Femmetje 

Van  der  Klyf. 
Gerret    Schuyler,  Aegje. 

Aegje  de  Groof. 
Thomas    Pel,    Aaltje  Cornelus. 

Van  der  Beek. 

Johannes   de   Freest,  Nicolaas. 

Tryntje  Ravesteyn. 
Isaac   Stoutenburg,  Jacobus. 

Neeltje  Uyten  Bo- 

gert 
Harmanus    Ruthgers,  Elsje. 

Catharina  Myer. 
Johannes  Rykman,  Tobias. 

Catharina  Kip. 


A°   1 7 10.  OUDERS.  KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

25.  A  n  d  r  i  e  s    Harden-  Johannes.       Johannes    Hardenbroek, 

Sara  Van  Laar,  s:  h:  v: 

Dirk    de    Groof,    Rachel 

Goederis. 
Pouweliis  Van  der  Beek, 

Elizabeth    Niewenhuy- 

se. 
Gerret  Ravesteyn,  Judith 

Ravesteyn,  s.  suster. 
Tobias  Stoutenburg, 

Tryntje  Van  Br  fig. 

Anthony  Ruthgers,  Elsje 

Myer. 
Samuel  Kip,  Tobias  Ryk- 
man,  Margrietje    Ryk- 
man, h.'v.  van  Samuel 
Kip. 

Isaac.  Isaac  Kip,    Saratje   Kip, 

s:  h:  vr. 

Catlyntje.  Nicolaas  Somerendyk, 
Vroutje  Andriesse. 

Cornelus.  Cornelus  Webbers,  Ra- 
chel Webbers. 

Hester.  Vinzang  Bodinge,  Hester 

Bodinge. 

Elizabeth.  Andries  Myer,  Jnr,  Geer- 
tje  Wessels,  syn  buys 
vroiiw. 

Benjamin.  Samuel  Provoost,  Cristina 
de  Mill. 

Magdalena.  Bart1  Lefurt,  Selve,  Su- 
sanna Parett. 

Matheus.  Mathys  Cornelusse,  Saar- 
tje  Hooglant. 

Vredrik    Fyn,    Elizabeth 
de  Boog. 
1  :  Pieter  Van  Tilburg,  Ger- 

ret Wynantse,  Rachel 
Mountes,  Jong.  d. 

Jan  Spratt,  Catharina  de 
Peister. 

Johannes  Thomasse, 
Grietje  Sammon,  huys 
vr.  van  Elias  Brevoort. 

*  These  three  names  are  entered  too  soon,  but  you  will  find  the  same  entered  afterward,  being  here 
placed  by  mistake,  and  are  allowed  to  remain,  in  order  not  to  deface  the  book. 


April  10. 

Dese  3  namen 
zyn  tevroeg  ge- 
copeerd,  m  a  a r 
zult  ze  daama 
wedervinden,  en 
is  hierdoor  over- 
zigt  misset  en 
blyft  zo  om  gcen 
klad  in  t'boek  te- 
maken.* 

February  5. 


[3^] 


tje  Selove. 

Cosyn  Andriesse, 
Margrietje  Some- 
rendyk. 

Wolfert  Webbers, 
Grietje  Stille. 

Denys  Resje,  Susan- 
na Bredong. 

F  r  a  n  s  Garbrantse, 
Elizabeth  Wessel- 
se. 

Anthony  de  Mill,  Ma- 
ry tje  Provoost. 

Bartholomews  Le 
Furt,  Magdalena 
Parett. 

Daniel  in  de  Voor, 
Engeitje  Cornelus. 


Wiliein  Wyt,    Hend-  Susanna. 

rikje  Basset. 
Jesaia  Okdon,  Tryn-  Caleb. 

tje  Van  der  Poel. 

Cornelus  de  Peister,  Catharina. 

Maria  Bankers. 
Jacob  Sammon,  Cat-  Aagje. 

lyntje  Bensing. 


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[July, 


A*   I7I0.  OUDERS.  KINDER:*. 

26.  John    Lorang,    Maria  Philip. 

Savinow. 
Alexander    Hooms,  Gerretje. 
Janneke  de  Graw. 

Maart  3.  Robbert    Bensing,  Tryntje. 

Cornelia  Roos. 
5.  Jacob  Bloili,  Marvke  Annetje. 

Bos. 
8.  Jan    Auke,    Helena  Maria. 

Reyerse. 
12.  Hans   Berge,   Saartje  Annetje. 

Rapalje,  Jur. 
Aart  Aarse,  Elizabeth  Helena. 

Andriesse. 
15.  Abraham   Van    Dyk,  Thomas. 

Elizabeth  Huvke. 
Matheus  Aartse,  Ma-  Matheus. 

rytje  Van  Dyk. 


19. 

Johannes    Hooglant, 
Ser,    Jenneke    An- 
driesse. 

Dirk. 

Jan  Nieuwkerk,  Jen- 

Cornelus. 

neke  Brestede. 

Jan   Nieuwkerk,  Jen- 

Annatje. 

neke  Brestede. 

2  linge. 

James     Lie,    Jastina 

Jacobus. 

[329] 

Witfeli. 

26. 

Jacob  ten  Eyk,  Neel- 
tje  Hardenberg. 

Dirk. 

29. 

Pieter    Tacobse.    Re- 
bekka  Jans. 

Cornelus. 

April  2. 

Coenraat    T  e  n  e  v  k, 
Jnr,  Annatje  Eps. 

Elizabeth, 

Ide  Myer,  Anna  Ra- 

Nicolaas. 

vestein. 

Claas  Bogert,  Grietje 

Cornelia. 

Conselje. 

Cornelus    Romme, 
Marytje  Kierstede. 


Tohanne- 


Theunis     K  w  i  k,  Abraham 
Maria. 


Vrouwtje  Herrinj 


10. 


Louwerens  Van 
Hoek,  Johanna 
Smith. 

Cos  y  n     Andriesse,  Catlyntje. 
Margrietje     Some- 
re  ndvk. 


GETUYGEN. 

Denys  Resjee,  Judith  On- 

gaa. 
Theunis    Kwik,     Samuel 

S  h  a  h  a  a  n,  V  r  o  u  t  j  e 
Kwik. 

Sampsom  Bensen,  Wil- 
lempje  Roos. 

G  e  r  r  e  t  Hyer,  Annetje 
Hardenbroek. 

Cornelus  Reyerse,  Sara 
Hanse. 

Jeronimus  Rapalje,  Saar- 
tje Rapalje,  Zenr. 

Johannes  Narbury,  Maria 
Hibon,  s:  h:  vrouw. 

Andries  Van  Dyk.  Geesje, 
s.  huys  vrouw. 

Jan  Ewoutse,  Davidt 
A  a  r  d  t  s  e.  Johanna 
Koc-ly. 

Dirk  Cornyn,  M  aria 
Obeel,  huys  vr.  van 
Gererd  Duyking. 

Nicolaas  Rosevelt  &  Hil- 
letje,  s:  hs:  vrouw. 

Andries  Breste  &  Anna- 
tje, huys  vrouw. 

Harme  Bensing,  Cathari- 
na  Witfelt. 

Andries  ten  Eyk,  Dina 
Hardenberg,  s:  h:  v: 

Hans  Hansen,  Antje  Van 
Deventer. 

Johannes  de  Peister,  Ma- 
ria Bankers,  s.  h.  v. 

Corneliis  Myer,  Judith 
Ravestein. 

Johannes  Bogert  &  Claas- 
je  Van  Schaik,  syn 
huys  vrouw. 

Johannes  Romme,  Mary- 
tje Arents,  syn  huys 
vrouw. 

Jacobus  Kwik,  Sara  Van 
Vorst. 

Justus  Bosch,  Johanna 
Van  Hoek,  Jnr. 

Nicolaas  Somerendyk, 
Vrouwtje  Andriesse. 


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RECORDS    OF   THE    REFORMED    DUTCH  CHURCH   IN  THE 
CITY  OF    NEW    YORK.— Marriages. 


INGESCHKEVEN. 

A°  1726. 
A  lay  20. 


Met  attest  van 
Bergen,  Ju- 
ly 20. 

August  26. 

Sept.  2. 
26. 

Octol/  25. 
28. 


(634) 

A°  1726. 
Ingeteekent 

April  1. 
6. 

Maart  15. 
May  12. 

!3- 
14. 

10. 
19. 
19. 

Juny  3. 
May  10. 

J%  15- 

15. 
29. 

August  2. 
16. 


(Continued   from  Vol.   XIII.,  p.  S4,  of  The  Record.) 

CF.TKOUl 

Johs  Quakkenbosch,  j.  m.  v.  N.  York,     Juny  9. 
met  Magdal3  Elisabth  Hartwich,  j.  d. 
uit  H.   Duidslandt,  beide  woone   al- 
ii ier. 

Johannes   De  Groot,  j.  m.,  met   Elisa-     July  20. 
bet  Sickels,  j.  d.,  beide  van  Bergen. 

Pieter  Kastel,  j.  m.  v.  Amstm,  met   S11-     Septemb*  14. 

sanna  Broun,  j.  d.  v.  N.  York. 
Philip  Jong,  j.  m.   &   Eva  Tysse,  j.   d.,     23. 

beide    uit    H.   DuidsP  &    woonende 

alhier. 
Antony    Caspar,     Wedr    &     Margrita     Novemb.  8. 

Keramer,  j.  d.,  beide  uit   H.  Duids- 

lant,  en  woonende  alhier. 
jan    Uildenbogert,  j.  m.,  met  Margrie-     13. 

tje  Paalding,  j.  d.,  beide  v.  N.  York, 

en  \voone  alhier. 
Gerrit    Cornelisse,    j.     m.    v.     Amstra,      18. 

woonc  aan  Rare  tans,  met  Maria  Lam- 

mersze,  j.   d.  v.  N.  EIaarlm,  woonen- 
de aldaar. 
Hendrik  Deyer,  j.   m.  v.   Alban.,  met     19. 

Johanna  de  Lamontagne,  j.  d.  v.  N. 

York,  beide  woonende  alhier. 


Personen  met  Licentie. 

John  Rey  &  Mary  Jones. 

John  Jones  &  Sara  Heyborn. 
Allart  Antony  &  Susanna  Laurier. 
Jacob  Walton  &  Maria  Beekman. 
John  Abrahamsen  &  Elisabet  Bosch. 
Gilbert  Van   Deurssen  &   Hanna  Ten 

Broek. 
William  De  Voor  &  Charite  Canklin. 
John  Daely  &  Margrieta  Van  Sysse. 
Barend  Bosch  &  Hanna  Roome. 
Walther  De  Grauw  &  Mary  de  Lanoir. 
David  de  Voor  &   Annetje  Van  Bree- 

raen  te  Haarlm. 
Abraham  Van  Deursen  &  Antje  Coek. 
Hendrik  Smith  &  Rachel  V.  Ness. 
George  Aston  &  Maria  Blank. 
Antony  Luwis  &  Meliora  Norwood. 
William  Eedzall  &  Jenneke  V.  Velsen. 


A°  1 

726. 

Getroiiwt 

April 

3- 

9- 

2 1. 

May 

14. 

14. 

14. 

20. 

22. 

22. 

Juny 

5- 

29. 

July 

17. 

17. 

29. 

August  4. 

i?. 

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INGESCHREVH.M. 

Sept.  6. 

22. 
24. 
29. 

Octob.  1. 
Sept.  28. 
Octob.  19. 

22. 
28. 

Novemb.  n 
16. 

10. 
Decemb.  12. 


Abraham  Yeats  &  Hester  Drinkwater. 
Pieter  van  Norden  &  Antje  Williams. 
John  Burnet  &  Elisabeth  Taylor. 
Norton  Ivelsal  &  Johanna  White. 
Icabot  Loutit  &  Elisabth  V.  Dyk. 
Johs  Brevoort  &  Annatje  Idesse. 
Hendrik  Beekman  &  Geertruy  V.  Cort- 

lant. 
Abrahm  Poutreau  &  Maria  Vrelant. 
John  Miller  &  Maria  Roman. 
Jacobus  Turk  &  Maria  Myer. 
Pieter  Bond  &  Catharina  Meyer. 
Teunis  Corsse  &  Elisabth  Nomberg. 
Elbert   Herring  &   Catharina  Lent,  tot 

Haarlem. 


CETKOIWT. 

Sept:  10. 

24. 

24. 

29. 

October  1. 

8. 

21. 

29. 

Novemb.  12. 
19. 
28. 
Decemb.  14. 


(635) 

A°  1727. 

IngCt<-.^.kCiU 

den  22  Nov. 
1  726. 
Eebr.  17. 


Maart  4. 
April  15. 


Met  attest. 
v.  Presb.- 
Kerk,  22. 

May  13. 


19. 

Juny  9. 

August  25. 
Octob.  14. 


Personen  met  Geboden. 


'?  j< 


O.  Em 


met 


A°  1727. 
Getroiiwt   Janu- 
ary 8. 


Maria  Jones,  j.  d.  Van  Nieuw  York, 
beide  woone  alhier. 

Johannes  Snoek,  Wedr,  met  Coenradi-     Maart  7. 
11a   Manderbag,  Wed.  V.  Pr  Stouber, 
beide  uit  Duidsl1,   en  woonende  al- 
hier. ^ 

Johannes   Roorbagh,    j.   m.    &  Sophia     25. 
Grau,  j.  d.,   beide  uit   Duidslant  en 
woonende  alhier. 

Johs   Cinsinning,    j.  m.,    met    Barbera     May  1. 
Welfeling,  j.  d.,  beide  uit  H.  Duids- 
lant, en  woonende  alhier. 

Robbert  Bokwel  met  Isabella  Bryn.  7. 


Johannes    Hofman,    Wedr,    met    Elsje     29. 
Margrite    Anhuizen,    beide     uit    H. 
DuidsP,  woonende  alhier. 

Cornells  Quakkenboseh,  j.  m.,  met  Cor-     Juny  16. 
nelia  De  La  Maetere,  j.  d.,  beide  v. 
N.  Haarlem,  woonen  aldaar. 

John    Tarp,   j.    m.   v.    Woedbrits,  met     30. 
Apolonia    Hereman,    j.  d.  v.  N:  Yk, 
beide  woonende  alhier. 

Frederik  Becker,  j.  m.  &  Catharina  Zen-     Septemb.  16. 
ger,  j.  d.,  beide  uit  Hoog-  Duidslant, 
en  woonende  alhier. 

Thomas   Hikdy,    j.    m.  v.   Londn,   met     Octob.  29. 
Margrita  Nicols,  Wed.  v.  Rob*  Sim- 
son  v.   N.   York,   beide    woonen  al- 
hier. 


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12 


INGESCHKKVEN. 

Xovemb.  iS. 


(636) 

1727. 
Ingeteekent 
Maart  20. 

April  20. 
May  10. 

17. 
24. 

Jtiny  3. 
7- 

13- 

12. 


29. 

July  4. 
29. 

Sept.  1. 
1. 
6. 

23. 
29. 

29. 

Octob.  6. 
Novemb.  11, 
10. 

16. 

25- 

25. 

Decemb.  6. 

Novemb.  29. 

22. 

29. 

(637) 

1728. 
Ingeteekent 
May  10. 


Sept.  15. 


John  Devis,  Wedc  van  Susanna  Wick? 
uit  de  Baramoedes  &  Catharina  De- 
mon, j.  d.  uit  Hoog  Duitchland,  bei- 
de  woonende  alhier. 

Personen  met  Licentie. 

Isai  Foushe  &  Margrit  Hermans. 

John  Albery  & -Elisabeth  Cuddy. 
Francois  Marschalk  &  Anneke  Lynsse. 

Richard  Hanssen  6:  Sarah  Thong. 
Isaac  Chardavome  &  Hanna  Caar. 
Henry  Williams  &  Maria  Van  Sysse. 
John  Stevens  &  Blandina  Laurens. 
Patrik  Jackson  &  Anna  Van  dr  Spiegel. 
Henry  Lauwrens  &  Hester  Lynsse. 
Gysbert    Uittenbogard     «S:     Catharina 

Hunter. 
y^^   y^n   Pelf  &  Hillen-ohd  Boeken- 

hoven. 
Dirk  de  Groof  &  Maria  Elsworth. 
William  Miller  &  Hanna  Xieuwkerk. 
John  Le  Montes  &  Aafje  van  Xorden. 
John  Stevens  &  Reyntje  v.  Brakele. 
Bartholomes  Xoxon  &  Elisb*  Pasco. 
Gerrit  Cousyn  &  Margrita  Johnson. 
William  Fisser  &  Elisabeth  Smith. 
Samuel  Romain  »k  Sarah  Minthorn. 
Robbert  Bleen  6c  Edi  Cock. 
John  Galloway  &  Hanna  Lamb. 
Cornells  Cortrecht  &  Ester  Canon. 
F r a nc o i s    K  0  u  \v  e  n  h o  v e n  &  Maria 

Brouwn. 
Henry  Brasier  &  Abigail  Parsell. 
Hugh  Robberts  6c  Martha  Hains. 
John  DiiMont  &  Annatje  Hooglant. 
Mattheus  Bensing  cc  Hanna  De  Groot. 
Brand  Bosch  6c  Aphje  De  Bruyn. 
John  Buys  vSc  Hanna  De  La  Montague. 
Lucas  Peck  cv  Maria  Reading, 

Personen  met  Geboden. 

Harm  en  Lucasse.  j.  m.  v.  X.  York,  met 
Annetje  Asjevyng,  j.  d.  v.  X.  Rcchel. 
beide  woonende  alhier. 

Christianus  Stouvvber,  j.  m.,  met  Anna 
Maria  Hofman,  Wed.  van  Michiel 
Peffer,  beide  uit  HoogduidsP,  woonc 
alhier. 


GETKOVWT. 

Decemb.  3. 


1727. 
Getrofiwt  .Maart 


April  2: 
May  14. 
iS. 

25- 

Juny  4. 
10. 
15. 
1  x. 


July  : 

4- 

29. 

Sept. 

3- 

9- 

24. 

3°- 
3" 


Octob.  7. 
Xovemb. 
12. 

19.        - 


1 1. 


rab.  9. 


27. 
De; 
16. 

3°- 
30. 


172S. 
Getrofiwt     May 
3°< 

Octob.  4. 


126 


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JNGESCHREYEN. 

August.  18. 


(638) 

A0  1728. 
Ingeteekent 

January  1, 
2. 
19. 

9- 

Febr.  20. 

Maart  2. 

27. 

April  20. 

27. 

May  11. 

iS. 

30. 

27. 
Juny  14. 

15. 

July  19. 

20. 

29. 

29. 

Septemb.  5. 

12. 

20. 

21. 

Octob.    IO. 

17. 
21. 

25. 
31. 
31. 


GUTKOl'WT. 


Johannes  Lucas,  Wedr  van   Heidelberg,      12. 
met    Elisabeth    Pipes,    Wed.    v.    Ti- 
moths  Paerker  Van  Pelsilvanie,  beide 
woonende  op  de  bouwery. 


Peisonen  met   Licentie. 

William  Jones  en  Mary  Ann  Clare. 

Luyke  Sjoerts  &  Cathara  Bensing. 
Peter  Yay  &:  Maria  v.  Cortlant. 
Richard  Vivian  *Sc  Anna  Holme. 
Joseph  deLaMontanje  &Margerte  Roll. 
John  Hendriks  &  Sara  Tiljou. 
Evert  Byvank  &  Maria  Cannon. 
William  Fielding  &  Sytje  Boekenhoven. 
Burger  Sipkens  &  Rebecca  Brestede. 
Pieter  Maas  &  Rachel  Bresrede. 
John  Fischie  &  Catharina  Waldron. 
John  Hoppe  &  Maria  v.  Norden. 
bamuei  Ten  Byk  &  Maria  Gomie. 
Samuel  Green  &  Annatje  Van  Velsen. 
Abraham  Ekker  &  Margarta  Montros. 
Abraham  Cannon  &  Maria  Leonards. 
Nicolaas  Swaan  &  Hendrica  Sikkels. 
Israel  Sadok  &  Francvntje  Blvenburg. 
James  Tucker  »>c  Mana  Woertendyk. 
John  Sleigh  &  Teuntje  Stevens. 
Laurens  Lambertse  &  Jane  Macdonald. 
John  Williams  &  Jane  van  De  Water. 
Roicer  French  &  Margarita  Louw. 
Albertus  Tibouwt  &  Cornelia  Bogaart. 
John  Denmark  &  Rach1  Beekman. 
Joseph  Williams  &  Sara  Woolley. 
John  Stinson  &  Eleanor  Murphy. 
Jacob  Sharp  &  Anna  Maria  Bomper. 
Antony  de  Milt  &  Mary  Scamp. 


A°  1728. 
Getrouwt   Janu- 
ary 1. 
6. 
20. 

Febr.  8. 
Maart  2. 
2. 
April  6. 

23- 
27. 

May  11. 
iS. 

3*- 

Juny  2. 

15. 
*5- 
July  21. 

2T. 

29. 

3T- 

Septemb.  5. 

12. 

21. 

22. 

Octob.  12. 

17- 
21. 

25- 

Xovemb.  2. 
2. 


(639) 

1729. 

Ingeteekent 
Maart  28. 


14. 


31" 


Personen  met  Geboden. 

A0  1729. 

Johannes  Waldron,  Wedr  van  Bossen 
Eyl1,  met  Margrietje  Rol,  j.  d.  v.  H. 
DuidsP,  \voone  alhier. 

Abraham  Van  Arnhem,  j.  m.  v.  N.  Yk, 
met  MarVtje  Van  Hevningen,  j.  d. 
v.  N.  Yk.' 

Adam  Teets,  Wedr  uit  Hoog  Duidsiant, 
woonende  te  X.  Haarlem,  met  Ca- 
tharina Schonenberg,  j.  d.  uit  Hoog 
D.s.L.,  woone  te  X.  Yk. 


A0  1729. 
Getrouwt    April 
J3- 


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INGESCHRKVEN.  CETKOTJWT. 

May  2.                 Gabrial  Moor,  j.  hi.,  met  Antje  Cotisyn,  May  18. 

beide  v.  N.  York,  en  \voone  aldaar. 

9.                          Resolrert   Waldron,   j.  m.,  met    Metje  28. 
Quakkenbosch,    j.    d.,    beide    v.    N. 
Haarlem,  en  \voone  aldaar. 

*       '  Personen   met   Licentie. 

A0  1728.  A°  1728. 
Ingeteekent         William  Day  &  Lauerina  Akkerman.  Getrouwt      No- 
No  vemb.  2.  vemb.  5. 

18.  Jacob  Robberts  &  Britget  Deygten.  18. 
20.                         Jannes  Bonnet  &  Maria  Solise.  21. 

30.                         Henry  Beckman  &  Debora  Pell.  Decemb.  1. 

26.  Matth5  v.  Alsteyn  &  Cathar3  Kerfbyl.  10. 

1729.                                            A0  1729.  1729. 

January  22.         Johs  Frederks  Ka'mter  &  Cornelia  Coelie.  January  24. 

22.                         Lewi  Thieboii  &  Mary  Vielie.  26. 

28.                         Abraham  Filkins  &  Peryntje  Tiebout.  28. 

27.  A&ianBanker &.G.  Eiisab*1  v.  Taeiling.  30. 
February  7.          David  w  Provoost  &   Anneke  Van  de  February  8. 

Water. 

11.  Nicolaas   v.    Taeiling   &    Elisabth  13. 

Richard. 

13.                         Abraham  Kip  &  Maria  v.  den  Berg.  13. 

28.  Michiel  Diderik  &  Penelope  Cuur.  Maert  1. 
Maart4.               Cornelis  Van  Arlandt  &   Frances  Bur-  4. 

ges. 

9.  Gabriel  Crook  &  Maria  Hardenbroek.  9. 
26.                          James  Hunter  &  Rachel  Wright.  27. 
April  3.                 William  Waldron  &  Aafje  Samman.  April  3. 

5.  Jacob5  de  La  MOntagne  &  Maria  Pel.  6. 

29.  William  Pasman  <&:  Christina  Lee.  29. 
May  10.                Cornelis  Louw  &  Johana  Gouverneur.  May  10. 

12.  George  Rapalje  &  Helena  Johnson.  17. 

19.  John  Hutton  &  Elisabeth  v.  Dyk.  25. 

20.  William  Vredenburg  &  Willemtje  Nak.  25. 

J  toy  3.                  Andries  Marschalk  &  Teuntje  Tibouwt.  Juny  7. 

6.  Herman   Rutgers  junr  &  Elisabet   Ben-  7. 

sen. 

13.  Thomas  Broun  &  Maria  Hunt.  13. 
20.  George  Lamb  &  Hendrica  Myer.  21. 
July  3.                  Nicolas  Bayart  &  Elisabth  Rey'nders.  July  3. 

10.  Richard  Bradburn  &  Elisb'h  Jones.  12. 

*       '  Personen  met  Geboden. 

1729.  1729.^ 

Ingeteekent         Abraham  Andriessen,  j.  in.,  met  Elisa-  Getrouwt      July 

July  4.                   beth  Buys,  j.  d.,  beide  v.  Deutelbay,  20. 
en  woonende  aldaar. 


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INGESCHREVEN.  GETROUWT.      . 

Sept.  6.  Cornells  Tafp,  j.  m.  v.  Woodbrits,  met     Sept.  21. 

A  p  o  1  o  n  i  a    Uitdeboomgaart,  beide 
woonende  alhier. 


Decerab*  26. 


(642) 

1729. 

Ingeteekent 

July  14. 
20. 
20. 
22. 
25. 

August  4. 
Sept.  2. 
12. 
19. 
26. 

Octob.  11. 
Novemb.  1. 

Octob.  31. 
Novemb.  10. 

IS- 

21. 

Decembr  3. 

12, 

18. 

22. 

24. 


■    A0  1730. 

Jacob   Kien,  j.   m.,    met   Elisabeth   Er-     January  11. 
ving,    beide    uit    Hoogduidslant,    & 
woonende  alhier. 


Personen   met   Licentie. 

Teunis  Tibouwt  &  Margrte  Drinkwater. 

John  Schuyler  &  Sara  Walt-her. 
William  Grant  &  Sara'Schackerly. 
Joseph  Pru  &  Gerritje  Taylor. 
Jacobus  Kip  &  patharina  Kip. 
Tohn  Clark  >S:  Maria  Vr  Schuure. 
John  Bell  &  Elisaheth  Fell. 
\V1ll1am  Clark  son  £c  Elisab111  Hunt. 
Benjamin  Jervis  &  Maria  Koning. 
Thomas  Bartlet  &  Sarah  Tindall. 
John  Hughes  &  Annatje  Chartes. 
John  de  Witt  Peterzoon  &   Anne   Van 

Home. 
Thomas  Nuet  &  Maria  Hermans. 
William  York  &  Catha  Shedar. 
Gerrit  Keteltas  &  Elisabth  v.  Dyk. 
Thomas  Shelton  &  Christina  v.  Dalen. 
John  Hull  *S:  Maria  Francis. 
Robbert  Provoost  &  Adriana  Paul. 
Evert  Duykin  &  Aafje  Hardenbroek. 
John     Witsingam    ts:    Jacomyntje    Ea 

Roux. 
Abraham  Van  Home  Junr  &  Catharina 

Rutgers. 


Getrouwt 
19. 

20. 

20. 

24. 

27. 

August  6. 

Sept.  7. 

13- 

2T. 

27. 

Octob.  11. 

Novemb.  2. 

2. 

10. 

15. 

23- 

Decembr  4. 

14. 

21. 

24. 

27.] 


1729. 

Jul;, 


January  2. 
Februar:  17. 
Maert  5. 

3- 

25- 

(643) 

173°- 

ingetekend 
April  10. 


A0   1730. 

John  Van  der  Heul  &  Sarah  Kip. 
Francis  Whith  &  Catha  Cramer. 
John  Ten  Eyk  &  Hanna  Drinkwater. 
Marten  Klok  &  Margar*  Dehonneur. 
Philippus  Goelet  &  Cathara  Boelen. 

Personen  met  Geboden. 

Matthys    Van    Rosendaal,    Wedr,    met 
Margariet  Haal,  Wede   Van    Michiel 

Gromen,    beide    van    N.     York,    & 
woonende  alhier. 


January  3. 
Febr:  19. 
Maert  5. 
8. 
28. 


1 730. 
Getrouwt  May 


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INCESCHREVEr 

Juny  20. 


Septembr  19. 

30. 
Octob.  16. 

*3- 

Novemb.  6. 


GETROT3WT. 


Godefricus  Bennoe,  j.  m.  v.  N.  Alban, 

met  Piternelle  de  La  Montanje,  j.  d. 

v.  N.  York,  beide  woonende  alhier. 
Henricus    Haanraad,   j.   m.  uit    Hoog 

DuidsP,  met  Elisabeth  Wikkel,  Wed. 

v.    Jan    Smith    uit    O.    Engu,    beide 

woonende  alhier. 
Thomas   Maeby,  j.  m.  v.  N.  Albanie, 

met  Sarah  Couper,  j.  d.  v.  N.  York, 

woonen  alhier. 
Samuel  Van   Naamen,  j.  m.  v.  Staaten 

Eyl*,  met  Sarah  de  Lamontanje,  Wed. 

v.    James    Makkintas    v.    N.   York, 

beide  woonen  alhier. 
Thomas  Barber,  Wedr  Van  Lena  Biouw- 

er    v.  Nieuw    York    &    Mary   Wolc, 

Wed.    van    William     Salomons    van 

Boston,  beide  woonende  alhier. 
Alexander    Bulsing,  j.    m.    v.     Philips- 

burg,    met    Aaphje    Weed,   Wed.   v. 

Thomas  Makkelveen,  beide  woonen 

alhier. 


July  9- 


Octob.  4. 


j  1 


3* 


(644) 

1730. 

Ingeteekent 
April  17. 
21. 
22. 
14. 
May  2. 

7- 

9. 
16. 

22. 

Juny  12. 
July  2. 
16.' 
24. 

August  6. 
8. 


11. 

Sept. 
1 1. 
14. 
18. 

3°- 


10. 


Personen   met   Licentie. 

Matths  Van  Deursen  &  Marg1  Pauls. 

Matths  Noble  &  Susanna  du  Nongne. 
Jacobiis  van  Norden  &ChristaSabrisco. 
Jaques  Buvelot  &  Margta  Perdriaii. 
William  de  Peyster  &  Margareta  Rose- 

velt. 
John  Romme  &  Elisabet  TenEyck. 
William  Andrew  &  Susana  Fort. 
Gerrit  Hollaar  Maas  &  Elisabeth  Dons- 

kam. 
Pieter  Pra  Van  Zandt  &  Sara  Williamsz. 
Hendrik  Myer  &  Geertruy  Rome. 
William  Whitead  &  Lidia  Bonnet. 
Dirk  Pitersse  &  Nelletje  Van  Brunt. 
William  Dyk  &  Annatje  Paulsse. 
Josua  Slydell  &  Elisab*  Johnson. 
Jacob  Koiiwenhoven  &  Anna  v.  Veg- 

ten. 
John  Wilks  &  Maria  Hoist. 
Henry  Brakkers  &  Maria  Ver  Plank. 
James  David  &  Maria  Tilly. 
Jons  Cousaar  &  Elisabeth  Hooglant. 
Archibald  Robison  &  Elisabth  Wallis. 
John  Hunt  &  Belida  Ten  Eyck. 


n, 


Getrouwt 

18. 
21. 

25. 
27. 
May  5. 

9- 
9« 

17. 

29. 

Juny 

July  2. 

16.' 

26. 

August  6. 

11. 

13- 

Sept.  10. 
12. 
16. 
20. 
Octob.  2. 


\pril 


13. 


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INCESCHRBVEN. 

Octob.  7. 
9- 

22. 
31. 

Novemb.  3. 

14. 

6. 

20. 

20. 

(645) 

1730. 

Ingeteekent 
Decemb.  1 

d°.  r. 


Nicolaus  Rosevelt  &  Maria  Bosch. 
Johannes  dii  Bois  &  Hele*  Bayard. 
John  Taveau  &Brigitta  Pell. 
Zachan'a  Allen  &  Esther  Dinning. 
Francis  Warne  cS:  Eva  Eght. 
Timothy  Lary  *$:  Mary  Moore. 
Andries  Teller  &  Maria  Marius. 
John  Williams  tSc  Charity  Hooms. 
Pieter  Bouwman  &  Aaltje  v.  Pelt. 

Personen   met   Geboden. 

Laurens  Lammersse,  j.  m.  v.  N.  York, 
met  Lea  Bras,  j.  d.  v.  Kingston  wn, 
beide  woonende  alhier. 

Denys  Costula,  j.  m.  v.  Ierlandt,  met 
Elisabeth  Rendal,  Wed.  v.  Barny 
Hamilton  v.  Ierlandt,  beide  woon- 
ende alhier. 


7- 
11. 

25- 
31- 

Novemb.  8. 

15- 
21. 

25. 


1730. 
Getrouwt       De- 
cemb. 20. 


1731.  A0  1731.  1731. 

April  29.  William  Prasser,  j.  m.  v.  London,   met     May  17. 

Margrite    Bagget,    j.    d.   v.  Dubblin, 

beide  woonende  alhier. 
May  7.  Isaac  Berre,  j.  m.  v.  Boston,  woonende     29. 

alhier,  met    Priscilla    Hooms  v.    N. 
Haarlem. 


(646) 


Personen  met  Licentie. 


1730. 

1730. 

Ingeteekent 

Deneis  Fisser  &  Belia  Tiirk. 

Getrouwt       De 

Decemb'  4. 

cemb.  6. 

18. 

Johans  Qiiakkenbosch  &  Margrita 

Bo- 

20. 

gaart. 

* 

A"  1731. 

173*. 

3i- 

Joseph  Waldron  &  Aafje  Hellake. 

Getrouwt  Jan.  9, 

I731- 

Janu.  15. 

Philip  Pirot  &  Elisabth  Elswort. 

17. 

19. 

Adriaan  Straat  &  Geertruy  Kaspar. 

19. 

8. 

Abraham  Persil  &  Jannetje  Yver. 

21. 

22. 

Laurens  Wessels  &  Susanna  Bradt. 

24. 

25- 

John  Marshall  &  Elsje  Rutgers. 

27. 

27. 

Pieter  Sanders  &  Sarah  Vr  Spiegel. 

28. 

14. 

William  Walton  &  Cornelia  Beekman. 

27. 

14, 

Nicolaus  Kortregt   &   EHsabth  v.  Huy- 

Feb:  5. 

zen: 

Feb:  13. 

Jacob  Van  Haal  &  Aaltje  Hoist. 

14. 

26. 

Rip  Thong  &  Cadi"  Van  Woert. 

27. 

. 


18S5.J  Brookhaven  {L.  J)  Epitaphs.  131 

BROOKMAVEN  (L.  1.)  EPITAPHS. 


i'\    CONTRIBUTED   BY    WlLLIAM    KEI.BY,    NEW   YORK. 


The  Newton  Burying-ground. — Is  located  on  the  east  side  of  the 
r  oad,  about  one  mile  and  a  half  north  of  Lake  Rbnkonkoma,  Long  Island, 
and  almost  opposite  to  Goold's  Pond.  When  the  following  inscriptions 
were  copied,  in  July,  1884,  it  was  overrun  with  brush  and  weeds,  the  fence 
had  fallen  down,  and  was  so  solitary  and  neglected  that  quail  were  nesting 
among  the  gravestones.  The  name  appears  upon  the  town  list  for  the 
first  time  in  1749,  when  John  Newton  was  taxed  is.  4^/.  on  his  property. 

In  Memory  of  Benjamin  Newton,  who  died  Oct.  3  1705  M  73. 

In  Memory  of  Mary  wife  of  Benjamin  Newton  who  died  June  9. 
1 791  M  71. 

In  Memory  of  Mrs.  Mary  wife  of  John  Newton,  Esq.  who  died  Oct. 
28  1820  /E  75.     (Her  maiden  name  was  Ake'rly.) 

In  Memory  of  Jacob  Newton,  who  died  March  2S  1832  A.E.  57 
years  11  Mos.  6  days.     (Son  of  John  and  Mary  Akerly.) 

Nathaniel  Newton,  died  Sept.  21.  1843   m    tne   72(3  year   of  his   age. 


Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Prudence  Newton,  who  died  Feb.  8.  1S47 
aged  72  years.     (Wife  of  Nathaniel,  maiden  name  L'Homrnedieu.) 

In  Memory  of  Caleb  Newton,  who  died  Aug.  n.  1787,  A.E.  57. 

Elizabeth  wife  of  Caleb  Newton,  died  Dec.  S.  1S38  in  the  79th  year 
of  her  Age.  (Maiden  name,  Elizabeth  Loring,  of  Morristown,  N.  J.  She 
was  cousin  to  her  husband.) 

In  Memory  of  Anna  Newton,  who  died  June  7,  1832  Aged  97  years. 
(Maiden  name  Blydenburgh.) 

In  Memory  of  Caleb  Newton,  who  died  Eeb.  21  1S44  in  the  Sist 
year  of  his  Age. 

Joanna,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Elizabeth  Newton,  died  Aug.  26  1839 
A.E.  41  Years  10  Mos.  c\:  27  Days. 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Emily,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Joanna  New- 
ton who  died  Oct.  5  1S36,  aged  11  months  &  16  days.  (Joseph  married 
Joanna  Avery,  of  Blue  Point.) 

In  Memory  of  Sylvester  F.  Newton,  who  died  Sept.  27  1S47  aged  41 
years.     (His  widow  married  secondly  Nathan  Smith.) 

In  Memory  of  John  A.  son  of  Sylvester  F.  and  Martha  A.  Newton, 
who  died  April  28,  1S60,  aged  17  years  5  mos.  16  days. 

In  Memory  of  George  W.,  son  of  Sylvester  F.  and  Martha  A.  Newton 
who  died  March  29,  1849,  aged  1  year  5  mos.  6  days. 

Julia  Ann  L., 'wife  of  David  C.  Benjamin,  died  Feb.  16.  1S51  A.E. 
17  ys.  3  ds.  (Daughter  of  Sylvester"  Newton,  married  Benjamin,  of  Sav- 
ville.) 

In  Memory  of  Nancy  wife  of  Harvey  Hawell,  who  died  Aug.  24,  1850 
Aged  20  years  2  mos.  &  17  days.  (Daughter  of  Sylvester  Newton,  mar- 
ried Harvey,  son  of  Samuel  Hawell.) 

In  Memory  of  Walter  son  of  Titus  and  Martha  Gould  who  died  April 
1.  180S  Aged  1  Day.     (Martha  was  daughter  of  Isaac  Newton.) 

In  Memory  of  Martha  A.  Gould,  daughter  of  Titus  and  Martha  Gould, 
who  died  March  22,  1S10  in  the  5th  year  of  tier  age. 


• 


1^2  Brookhaven  (Z.   /.)  Epitaphs.  [Jtily, 

Sarah  Smith,  died  April  21  1858,  in  the  77th  year  of  her  Age.  (Widow 
of  William  Smith  and  daughter  of  Joseph  Gould.) 

In  Memory. of  Rachel,  wife  of  Selah  Smith,  died  Aug.  26  1825,  aged 
68  years.  4  mos.  28  days.     (Maiden  name  Rachel  Gould.) 

In  Memory  of  Hannah  Smith,  wife  of  Ephraim  Smith,  who  died  Jan. 
6.  1847,  Aged  72  Years.  2  mos  &  21  Ds.     (Maiden  name  L' Hommedieu.) 

In  Memory  of  Ephraim  Smith,  who  died  May  2$,  1847,  Aged  80  years, 
6  mos.  &  2  days. 

In  Memory  of  Annar,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  Smith,  who 
died  June  10,  1852,  Aged  40  Years,  9  Mos.  cS:  13  Days. 

Mrs.  Mary,  wife  of  Jeremiah  Davis,  died  Sept.  5,  1855,  JE  57.  (Daugh- 
ter of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  Smith.) 

Richard  S.  Davis,  died  Sept.  18  i860,  aged  24  years  and  3  months. 
(Son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary.) 

Charles  E.  died  July  17,  1845  ^E  11  mo.  10  ds.  Also  George  T. 
died  Sept.  9.  1855  JE  2  yrs.  n  mo.  iS  ds.  Children  of  Charles  and  Erne- 
line  L' Hommedieu, 

Charles  L' Hommedieu,  died  Feb.  3.  1855.  JE  40  yrs.  4  mo.  &  9  ds. 
(Brother  to  Ira  ;  his  widow  became  the  fourth  wife  of  Jeremiah  Davis.) 

Mary  Emma,  daughter  of  Ira  and  Amy  L' Hommedieu,  died  April  21. 
1849  JE  5  ys.  /  mos.  iS  ds.  (''Uncle  Ira"  was  a  popular  host  for  many 
years  at  the  old  Lakeland  Station  on  the  Long  Island  Railroad.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Amy  Harlow,  whose  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Phineas  Davis.) 

Richard  S..  son  of  Ira  and  Amy  L'Hommedieu,  died  Aug.  27  1839 
JE  2  y'rs.  2  mos.  &  25  d's. 

Sarah  Emma,  daughter  of  Geo.  W.  and  Sarah  A.  Yarrington  died  July 
27  185 1  Aged  2  years.  (Sarah  A.,  daughter  of  Richard  Davis,  married 
Yarrington,  of  Sayville.) 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Jane  A.  Sterling,  daughter  of  John  and 
Amelia  Sterling,  who  departed  this  life  Dec.  5th.  1846,  aged  1  year  &  ti 
months.  (Amelia  was  daughter  of  Samuel  Hawell ;  her  brother,  Harvey, 
married  Nancy  Newton.) 

Phinehas  Davis,  died  July  2.  1848  aged  93  years  9  Mos  and  29  Days. 

Sybel  wife  of  Phinehas  Davis,  Died  Sept  26.  1849  Aged  93  years  1  Mo. 
&  28  days.  ("Uncle  Phin  "  commonly  called  Old  Firelock,  a  pensioner 
of  the  war  of  18 12,  was  the  son  of  Phinehas  and  Sybel,  he  resided  west  of 
Lake  Ronkonkoma  and  was  a  well-known  character  until  his  death  a  few 
years  ago.  A  famous  hunter  in  his  youth,  he  boasted  of  having  killed  the 
last  "hay  then  [heath-hen]  on  the  island.''  His  daughter  is  now  living 
alone  in  the  dilapidated  homestead). 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  William  Furman,  who  died  May  13  185 1 
aged  57  years  &  8  mos.  Also  his  grandson  William  H.  E.  Chamberlain, 
Jr.  who  died  Feb.  26  1853  aged  3  years  &  1  month. 

Jesse  Davis,  died  July  10  1831  aged  about  43  years.  Erected  by 
Richard  Davis. 

Sacred  to  the  [Memory  of  Susan  Maria  wife  of  Michael  Malloy,  who 
died  Aug.  15,  1847  aged  19  years  6  mos  &  8  days.  Also  of  their  son 
Daniel,  who  died  Sow  26,  1847  aged  n  months  &  17  days. 

In  Memory  of  John  Roseman,  who  died  Dec.  28,  1838.  Aged  79  years. 
(John  P>oneus,  deserted  from  the  British  Army  changed  his  name  to  Rose- 
man,  and  remained  on  Long  Island  after  the  troops  were  withdrawn  in  1  783. 
He  married  Catharine  Woodhull.) 


1885.]  Record  of  a  Branch  of  the  Beekman  Family.  \\% 

Catharine  widow  of  John  Roseman,  died  Dec.  11,  1S6S,  M  92  yrs.  2 
Mo'&  3  Days. 

Abraham  W.  Roseman,  died  June  1.  1S77  JE.  66  yrs.  9  mos  &  n  days. 
(Son  of  John  and  Catharine  ;  he  carried  the  mail  for  many  years  between 
Lake  Grove  and  Lakeland.) 

The  Davis  Burying-grg-und. — Lies  on  a  desolate  sandy  plain  to  the 
west  of  Lake  Ronkonkoma,  and  contains  but  eight  tombstones,  inscribed 
as  follows  : 

In  Memory  of  Phincas  Davis,  who  departed  this  life  April  25  1793  aged 
62  years  j  mo.  Sarah  Davis  his  wife,  departed  this  life  Feb.  13.  1836 
aged  8S  years  &  21  days.      Erected  by  their  son  Nicholas  Davis. 

George  N.  son  of  Nelson  <S:  Caroline  Davis  died  April  ir  1S47  JE*  6 
years  7  mo.  Nancy  daughter  of  Nelson  &  Caroline  Davis  died  August  18 
1835  JE.  1  mo  14  days. 

Caroline  wife  of  Nelson  Davis  died  July  1,  1S35  JE  43. 

Joanna  wife  of Jedediah  Davis  died  April  5,  1S45  JE  69  years. 

Jedediah  Davis  died  July  3.  1853  JE  7S. 

Oliver  H.  Davis  died  Nov.  20  185S  JE.  53  years  3  mos. 

John  S.  son  of  Oliver  &  Ann  Davis  died  Dec.  30  1S35   JE  i~yea!  5  mos. 

Tn  Memory  o\  George  Washington  Davis  died  July  16.  1S21  aged  8 
months.  Also  of  Nicholas  Davis  died  Nov.  29.  1825  aged  3  mo.  14  days. 
And  also  of  Anna  Maria  Davis  who  died  April  23  1836  aged  2  years  7  mos 
&  5  days.     Children  of  Nicholas  and  Kezia  Davis. 


RECOPvD    OF    A    BRANCH     OF    THE    BEEKMAN     FAMILY    IN 
NEW    YORK,    NEW    JERSEY,    AND    ILLINOIS. 


By  George  C.   Beekman,  Esq.,  Freehold,  N.  J. 


Marten  Beeckman,*  or  as  now  spelled,  Beekman,  came  to  New  York 
in  1638,  and  settled  at  Albany.  He  was  a  blacksmith,  at  an  age  when  all 
work  in  iron  was  done  by  hand,  from  a  nail  to  an  iron  plough  or  cannon. 
How  long  he  lived  at  Albany,  and  whether  he  died  in  this  country  or 
returned  to  Holland,  has  not  been  ascertained. 

By  his  wife,  Susannah  Jans,  he  had  at  least  three  children. 

1.  Johannes,  who  married,  first  Machtel,  dau.  of  Jacob  Schermerhom  ; 

second,   Eva  Yan   Haeghen.      He  was  buried  at  Albany,  Sept.  30, 

1732;  his   will   was  proved  Dec.   2,    1732.     By  his   two   wives   he 

had   fourteen  children,  whose  names  are  given  in  Pierson's  "  First 


2.  Hendrick,  who  married  Annetje,  dau.  of  Peter  Quackenbosh,  and 
resided  a  number  of  years  at  Schotac,  near  Albany. 

3.  Metie,  who  married  Cornelius  Yan  Der  Hoeven. 

In  1710,  November  13th,  Octavo  Coenraats,  a  merchant  of  New  York 
City,  deeded  to  Plendrick  Beeckman,  the  above-named  person,  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  land  on  the  Raritan  Rivei,  in  the  County  of  Somer- 
set, N.  J.  It  was  part  of  a  one  thousand  acre  tract,  bought  by  Coenraats 
of  Peter  Sonmans,   by  deed  dated  January  27,  1706,  and  part  of  a   two 

*  Sec  Beekman  in  note  to  Waldron  Family,  Riker's  His.  of  H.-.risnj,  iS8x,  p.  563. 


1^4  Record  of  a  Branch  of  the  Beekman  Family  [July, 

thousand  three  hundred  acre  tract  conveyed  to  Sonmans  by  deed  dated 
October  20,  1605,  from  the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey.  Tins  old  deed  to 
Hendrick  Beeckman  was  never  recorded,  and  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.  Vredenburgh,  widow  of  ex-Sheriff  Van  Dorn  Yreden- 
burgh,  deceased.  She  owns  part  of  the  land  described  in  this  deed,  which 
she  inherited  from  her  father  Benjamin  Beekman.  She  has  also  an  agreement 
dated  September  20,  1735,  from  which  it  appears  that  Marten,  Peter  and 
Hendrick,  three  sons  of  Hendrick  aforesaid,  jointly  possessed  five  hundred 
acres  on  the  Raritan  River  belonging  to  their  father.  That  he  had  died, 
and  by  this  agreement,  they  propose  to  divide  between  themselves  this 
land.  When  and  where  the  rest  of  the  five  hundred  acres,  besides  the 
Coenraat  tract,  was  purchased,  is  unknown. 

An  old  Dutch  Bible,  printed  at  Leyden,  Holland,  in  1663,  and 
which  was  kept  at  the  homestead  on  the  Raritan  River  until  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Cornelia  Beekman,  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Vredenburgh,  and  since  has 
been  in  the  possession  of  Rev.  John  S,  Beekman,  contains  entries  of  the 
births  and  deaths  of  the  children  of  HendricK  by  his  wife  Anntje  Quacken- 
bosh.  Pierson,  in  his  '•  First  Settlers  of  Albany,"  and  Holgate  in  his 
"American  Genealogy,"  mention  "  Lydia,"  baptized  June  2.  16S9,  as  one 
of  Hendrick's  children,  but  there  is  no  record  of  such  a  child  in  this  Bible. 
Tiic  following  io  ~  correct  record  of  the  children  from  the  entries  in  this 
Bible. 

1.  Marten,  b.  1685.  m.  June  2r,  1724,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Samuel 
Waldron,  of  Haarlem,  N.  Y.,  d.  Oct.  27,  1757.  His  wife  was  b. 
1700,  d.  Nov.  27,  1760. 

2.  Susannah,  b.  March  2,  1686  (no  other  record). 

3.  Hendrick,  b.  June  5,  1692.  Died  unmarried  March  19,  1769. 
His  will  is  dated  Dec.  21,  1760,  proved  Jan.  15,  1770.  Re- 
corded in  Secretary  of  State's  orfice,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  in  Liber  K  of 
Wills,  page  148,  etc.  He  devises  all  his  property  equally  to  Eliza- 
beth, Hendrick,  Samuel,  Anne,  and  John,  the  five  children  of  his 
brother  Marten,  deceased. 

4.  Martje,  b.  Jan.  9,  1695  (no  other  record). 

5.  Peter,  b.  July  4,  r 697-  d.  in  April  or  May  of  1773.  His  will  is 
dated  April  20,  1773,  proved  May  31,  1773,  and  recorded  in  Sec- 
retary of  State's  office,  Trenton,  X.  J.,  in  Liber  L  of  Wills,  pages 
49  and  50.  He  leaves  his  property  to  Gnetje,  his  wife,  and  his 
three  daughters,  Lantje,  wife  of  Eernandus  Gulick,  Amortje,  wife 
of  Peter  Pieterson,  and  Xeeltje,  wife  of  Bernardus  Van  Zandt.  In 
Holgate's  "  American  Genealogy  "  these  three  daughters  are  men- 
tioned as  his  only  children. 

6.  Madaeina  (or  Magdanaje  as  spelled),  b.  Sept.  19,  1701  (no  other 
record). 

Marten  Beeckman,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Waldron,  had  the  following 
children  : 

1.  Elizabeth,  b.  Aug.  30,  1725,  m.  Francis  Brazier,  d.  Nov.  9,  1S10. 
Buried  in  yard  of  old  Episcopal  Church  at  Xew  Brunswick,  X.  J. 

2-.  Hendrick,  b.  March  24,  1727,  m.  Phoebe  Bloomfield,  d.  Jan.  26, 
1796,  leaving  sons  and  daughters. 

3.  Samuel,  b.  Nov.  26,  1729,  m.  Dec.  5,  1765,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Sam- 
uel Waldron  and  his  wife  Anne  Delamater,  of  Newtown,  L.  I.,  d. 
Oct.  1  q,  1S08. 


1 885. J  in  Neiv  York,  New  Jersey,  and  Illinois.  j.^e 

4.  Annetje,  b.  June  28,  1734,  m.  Nov.  12,    1766,  Johannes  Waldron, 

d.  Sept.  5,  1  795. 

5.  John,  b.  Nov.  5.  1741 ;  no  other  record  except  that  he  is  named  in 

his  uncle  Hendrick's  will  as  alive  nearly  twenty  years  after. 
Samuel  Beekman,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Waldron,  had  the  following 
children  : 

1.  Samuel,  b.  Sept.  21,   1766,   m.,  in  1 7 S 7 ,   Helena,   youngest  dan.  of 

Hon.  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck,*  d.  March  4,  1850,  and  was  buried  in 
the  old  yard  of  Harlingen  Dutch  Church.  His  wife,  Helena,  was 
b.  Jan.  26,  1  7 68,  d.  Feb.  15,  1855. 

2.  Elizabeth,  b.  July  8,  176S,  m.  William  Baker,  of  Pennington,  N.  J., 

d.  Nov.  1  j,  1  791. 

3.  Cornelia,  b.  Aug.  15,  1770,  in.,  April   7,  180S,  Benjamin  Beekman 

(own  cousin),  d.  Jan.  24,  1858. 

4.  Marten,  b.  May  14.  1773,  m.,  first,  Matilda  Brokaw.  second,  Mary 
Powelsen,  d.  Aug.  26,  1844.  By  his  two  wives  he  had  fourteen 
children. 

5.  Anne,  b.  Feb.  24,  17S0.  d.,  unmarried,  Feb.  26,  1846. 

Samuel  Beekman,  by  his  wife  Helena  Ten  Broeck,  had  the  following 
children  : 

-     F.LT7,p.vTRj  b.  March  9,  z:OQ.  m.  Abraham  Van  Arsdale,  d.  June  26, 

1847. 

2.  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck,  b.  Oct.  25,  1789,  m.,  Jan.  14,  1813,  Eliza- 
beth Todd,  d.  April  21,  i860. 

3.  Margaretta,  b.  May  25,  1792,  m.,  Nov.  8,  1812,  Aaron  Vandeibilt, 

d.  Jan.  29,  1878. 

4.  Cornelia,  b.  June  4,  1794,  in.,  Aug.  1,  1813,  Nicholas  Veghte,  d. 
Aug.  4>  1875. 

5.  Peter  Ten  Broeck,  b.  April  21/1796,  m.,  Oct.  1,  1S20,  Eliza  Car- 

penter, d.  April  23,  1876.  He  resided  many  years  at  Neshanic, 
Somerset  County,  X.  J.,  and  carried  on  the  mills  there.  He  rep- 
resented Somerset  County  in  the  New  Jersey  Assembly  during  the 
years  1845-46. 

6.  Ann,  b.  .May  19,  1798,  m.  Abraham  Dumont,  d.  Dec.  24,  1880. 

7.  Jacob  Ten  Broeck,  b.  April  10,  1S01,  m.,  Feb.  12,  1833,  Ann  Claw- 

ford  at  Middletown,  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.,  d.  April  23,  1875. 
He  was  a  graduate  of  Union  College,  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  and  a 
clergyman  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He  left  three  sons,  Theo- 
dore, George  C,  and  Edwin,  surviving  him. 

8.  Abraham  Ten  Broeck,  b.  July  15,  1803,  m.,  Nov.  17,  1S24,  Eliza 
Ann  Vanderveer,  and  is  still  (1S85)  residing  on  his  farm  at  Har- 
lingen, N.  J.  One  of  his  sons,  Garrett  V.,  served  during  the  war 
of  the  rebellion  in  the  First  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  and  rose  to  the 
rank  of  major.     He  now  lives  at  Chicago,  111. 

9.  Catharine,  b.  Nov.  25,  1805,  d.  Jan.  14,  1810. 

Cornelius  T.  B.  Beekman,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Todd,  had  the  follow- 
ing children  : 

1.  Samuel  A.,  b.  Dec.  14,  181 3,  m.,  Sept.  20,  1841,  Henrietta  Eyon, 
and  d.  in  New  York  City  some  time  in  1S82  or  1883. 

*  Corxklius  Ten  Broeck  was  b.  at  Kingston,  Ulster  Count}',  N.  V.,  May  31,  171a.  m.  Sept.  2,  1746, 
Margaret  Louw  (Low)  at  Kingston,  and  settled  in  the  same  ye3r  near  Harlingen,  Somerset  County,  N.  J.. 
where  he  lived  until  his  death,  Aug.  j.,  1790.  Three  of  his  sons  served  in  the  revolutionary  war.  He 
represented  Somerset  County,  N.  J.,  in  the  New  Jersey  Assembly  in  the  year  17C3. 


]  ^6  Record  of  a  Branch  of  the  Beekman  Family,  [Ju^y« 

2.  William  Todd,  b.  Feb.  23,  18 15,  ni.,  Sept.  9,  1841,  Mary  Conover 

Spear,  at  Clary's  Grove,  Illinois. 

3.  James  Waldron,  b.  Dec.  9,  1816,  in.,  Dec.  16,  1841,  Leah  Perkins, 

in  Illinois. 

4.  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck,  b.  Aug.  25,  1818,  died  unmarried  and 
young. 

5.  Cornelia  A.,  b.  Oct.  1,  1820,  m.,  Nov.  3,  1841,  Lloyd. Vanderveer. 

6.  Sarah  M.,  b.  May  4,  1S23,  m.,  Aug.  23,  1843,  John  Reeve  Vander- 
veer. 

7.  Benjamin  Franklin,  b.  Dec.  n,  1824,  m.,  first,  June  n,  1858, 
Arrabella  Errickson  ;  second,  Aug.  r,  186 1,  Carrie  E.  Waller  ;  third, 
June  7,  1867,  x\ddie  Houghton,  who  survived  him..  He  left  no 
children. 

8.  Jane  Ten  Evck,  b.  July  9,  1827,  m.,  March  2,  1859,  Ralph  V.  D. 
Ten  Broeck. 

9.  Helen  E.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1829,  d.  young. 

William  Todd  Beekman,  who  married  Mary  C.  Spear,  settled  in 
Illinois,  and  resides  now  at  Petersburgh  in  that  State.  He  has  had  the 
following  children — all  live  in  State  of  Illinois. 

1.  John  Todd,  b.  March  28,  1843,  at  Clary's  Grove,  Illinois,  m.,  Feb. 

1)   ---ij  —-.an -.    -  ~.~j,  Ui  j.  cLvt^tJaijjii. 

2.  James  Blankinship,  b.  Jan.  29,  1S45,  at  Clary's  Grove,  Illinois,  m. 

Julia  A.  Wood,  of  Jacksonville,  Jan.  12,  1865. 

3.  Maria  Lizzie,  b.   at  Petersburgh,   Hi.,   May   13,   1S47,  m.,  Oct.   6, 

1880,  John  Marion  Zane. 

4.  George  Spear,  b.  May  14,  1849,  at  Cedar  Grove,  111.,  m.,  Dec.  26, 

1872,  Genevieve  M.  Harrison,  of  Richland,  111. 

5.  Julia  Jayne,  b.  Oct.  16,  185 1,  at  Cedar  Grove,  111.,  m.,  Oct.  6,  1880, 

Richard  B.  Pollard. 

6.  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck,  b.  April   13,   1854,  at  Cedar  Grove,  111., 

m.,  April  22,  18S0,  Elma  L.  Knechler,  of  Springfield,  111. 

7.  Mary  Ann,  b.  Jan.  26,  1856,  at  Cedar  Grove,  Hi. 

8.  Sarah  Helen,  b.  March  7,  1S58,  at  same  place. 

9.  William  Henrv,  b.  Sept.  30,  i860,  at  same  place. 

10.  Carrie  Waller,. b.  Oct.  27,  1863,  at  same  place. 

James  Waldron  Beekman,  who  married  Leah  Perkins,  also  resides  near 
.Petersburgh,  111.,  and  has  four  children.  He  and  his  brother,  William  T., 
are  highly  respected  for  their  integrity  as  business  men,  and  their  respect- 
able conduct  in  the  various  relations  of  life.  They  were  among  the  early 
settlers  in  the  portion  of  the  State  where  they  reside,  and  have  seen  the 
wilderness  converted  into  a  prosperous  and  cultivated  country. 

For  additional  information  respecting  the  family,  see  Beekman  or  Beeck- 
man  in  Pierson's  *'  P^irst  Settlers  of  Albany,"  Holgate's  "American 
Genealogy,"  Riker's  "  History  of  Harlem,"  Ellis  and  Snell's  "  History  of 
Somerset  County,  N.  J.,"  "Atlas  of  the  New  Jersey  Coast,"  O'Callaghan's 
il  Doc.  His.  of  New  York,"  Records  of  Reformed  (Dutch)  Church, 
New  York. 


1885.]  Inscriptions  from   Tomb  stones ',  a  no!  other  Records.  137 


INSCRIPTIONS    FROM    TOMBSTONES    IN    A    CEMETERY  AT 
RYE,   WESTCHESTER   COUNTY,  N.  Y. 


Contributed  by  G.   II.   Van   Wagenen. 


In  the  village  of  Rye,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  on  the  west  side  of 
Blind  Brook,  behind  the  store  belonging  to  Daniel  Strang  and  now  occu- 
pied by  Charles  Field,  lies  a  small  cemetery  belonging  to  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  Rye,  and  which  from  its  secluded  situation  is  not 
likely  to  attract  the  attention  of  the  passers-by  on  the  highroad. 

Here  rest  five  of  the  former  rectors  of  the  church,  whose  rectorships 
cover  a  period  of  about  forty-live  years  in  the  history  of  this  ancient  parish. 
The  plot  of  ground  on  which  this  cemetery  is  located  formerly  belonged 
to  the  Rev.  James  VVetmore,  and  was  given  by  him  to  the  parish  church  of 
Rye  about  the  year  1759,  This  P*ot  contained  about  twenty  acres,  and 
of  this  a  small  piece  was  set  apart  as  a  burial-place  for  the  rectors  of  the 
church.      Tire  Rev.  Mr.  Wetmore   himself  was  the  first  to  be  buried  there. 

The  church  retained  this  property  till  1846,  when  they  sold  it  to  Mr. 
t„.,,,„_  t>    it^i,*^-i    ^^,.,,,,-inr.  fiin   o.^-ioii   •p.i^.f-  mspH  pc  g   Cemetery.     These 

records,  which  I  give,  were  taken  by  me  from  the  tombstones  several  years 
ago  ;  it  would  be  impossible  now  to  verify  most  of  them,  as  some  of  the 
stones  have  been  destroyed,  and  the  inscriptions  on  others  have  become 
illegible.     The  following  are  the  records  : 

"  Sacred  to  the  memory  of.  the  Rev.  Mr.  James  Wetmore,  the  late, 
worthy,  learned  and  faithful  minister  of  the  Parish  of  Rye  for  above  30 
years,  who  having  strenuously  defended  the  Church  with  his  pen,  and 
adorned  it  by  his  life  and  doctrine,  at  length  being  seized  of  the  small-pox 
departed  this  life  May  15th,  1760.  -fEtatis  65.  Cujus  memoriae  sit  in 
Benedictione  sempiterna." 

"  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Punderson,  late  Mission- 
ary to  the  Revd.  Society  for  propagating  the  Gospel  in  foreign  parts,  who 
died  22nd  Sept.  A.D.  1764,  Being  60  years  of  age. 

"  With  pure  religion  was  his  spirit  fraught, 
Practised  himself  what  he  to  others  taught." 

Rev.  Ephraim  Avery  died  Nov.  5,  1776,  aged  35,  having  been  Rector 
of  Rye  Parish  nearly  Eleven  years.  1  have  not  been  able  to  find  his  tomb- 
stone, but  take  the  Rev.  Robert  Bolton  as  authority  that  he  was  buried 
here.    (Bolton's  "  Hist,  of  the  Church  in  Westchester  County,"  p.  Z22>-) 

"  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Mrs.  Hannah,  late  Consort  of  the  Rev. 
Ephraim  Avery,  who  having  lived  greatly  beloved,  Died  universally  la- 
mented after  six  weeks  of  excruciating  pain,  on  ye  13th  day  of  May  A.D. 
1776  in  ye  39th  year  of  her  age. 

Blessed  are  the  dead 
Who  die  in  the  Lord." 


138  Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  [Jllty> 

u\w   Memory  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  David  Foote,   Late  Pastor  at  Rye  and 
White  Plains,  who  departed  this  life  the  1st  of  August,  1793,  aged  32  years. 
Blessed  are  the  dead 
Who  die  in  the  Lord." 

Rev.  George  Ogilvie  died  April  3,  1797,  aged  39  years,  having  been 
Rector  of  Rye  Parish  about  6  months.  1  have  not  seen  his  tombstone, 
but  refer  to  Rev.  Mr.  Bolton  as  authority. 

"  Mary  Haskell,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Haskell,  Rector  of  Christ 
Church,  Rye,  Departed  this  life  May  22,  1816.  In  the  full  assurance  of 
faith  and  the  joyful  expectation  of  a  blessed  immortality  through  the  merits 
of  the  Redeemer. 

Oh,  Death,  thou  victor  of  this  mortal  frame, 
The  race  of  Adam  trembles  at  thy  name 
How  long  shall  man  be  doomed  to  dread  thy  sway, 
And  mourn  for  those  whom  thou  dost  take  away." 

"Esther  Hunt  departed  this  life  Sept.  18,  1819,  aged  82  years."  (She 
was  daughter  of  Rev,  James  Wetmore,  and  married  1st  David  Brown,  of 
T?vp    inrt  f^»r>  t^cc-p.  T-3i-.v-,r    Hi^h  sheriff  of  Westchester  Co.) 

"Anne,  Wife  of  Jacob  Moore,  of  the  city  of  N.  Y.,  who  fled  from  the 
pestilence  raging  in  that  City,  and  who  died  and  was  buried  here  the  26th 
of  Nov.  1798,  aged  ^^  years  22  clays." 

"Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Mary,  Widow  of  Capt.  James  Armour,  who 
departed  this  life  8th  Dec.  1S26,  aged  89  years  24  days." 

"In  Memory  of  Michael  Moore,  who  departed  this  life  Oct.  25,  1S37, 
aged  37  years." 


RECORDS  OF  THE  FIRST  AND  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.  — Births  and 
Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XI.,  p.  33,  of  the  Record.) 

(i93)  *1*3- 

On  the  Twenth-sixth  day  of  November,  in  the  |  year  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  seven  Hundred  and  Eighty  |  three,  the  first  Presbyterian  Church 
of  this  City  |  was  Collected  by  the  return  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Rod  |  gers  and 
the  exiled  people,  after  a  dispersion  of  |  seven  years  two  months  and  twelve 
days,  dur  |  ing  the  late  war. 

Baptisms  after  the  Re-organization  of  the  Church. 

Livingston.  Dec.  7:h.  Mary  Alexander,  daur  of  Peter  V.  Brugh  Liv- 
ingston, Junr,  and  Susannah  Blondel  his  wife, 
born  Septr  5th,  17S3. 

Berry.  ^  Dec.        7th.   Anne.  Daur  of  James  Berry  and  Eliz^  Cole  his 

wife,  born  Nov1  4th,  1783. 


iS8 


Churches  of  the   City  of  New  York. 


139 


Varrian. 

Dec 

Ogilvie. 

Dec, 

Stewart. 

Dec. 

MiSSEROY. 

Dec. 

Patten.  Dec.      2\ 

(i94) 

McDonald.      Dec.     21s 


14th.   Richard,  son  of  Richard  Varrian  &  Susannah 

Gardiner  his  wife,  born  June  15th,  1783. 
I41'1.   Catharine,  Daur  of  Thomas  Ogilvie  «S:  Catharine 

his  wife,  born  Septr  29th,  1783. 
14th.   Maigaref,  Daurof  John  Stewart  and  MaryGren- 

nier  his  wife,  born  Septr  29th,  1783. 
21st.   Elizabeth,  Daur  of  George  Misseroy  &  Catha- 
rine his  wife,  born  July  jo:h,  1781. 
Cornelius,  their  son,  born  Octr  10th,  1777,  & 
Maria,   their  Datir,  born  Feb13'  13th,  1779.  were 

both  baptized  During  the  war. 
George  Misseroy,  son  of  Edward  Patten  &  Mary 
Misseroy  his  wife,  born  Aug1  4th,  1783. 


Bleecker.         Dec.     25" 
McKinnon.      Dec.     28" 

a>OWNE.  J_>cC.       ~«-> 


Jane,  Daur  of  John  McDonald  &  Jane  his  wife, 
born  Nov*  2  2d,  17S3. 

Alice,  Daur  of  Anthony  L.  Bleecker  &  Mary 
Noel  his  wife,  born  Novr  13th,  1783. 

Catharine,  Daur  of  Hugh  McKinnon  &  Eliza- 
beth Davidson  his  wife,  born  Nov1  f$th,  1783. 

John  Zuriclier,  son  of  Prentice  Bowne  &  Mag- 
dalene Zuricher  his  wife,  born  Aug'  10th, 
1783. 


Baptized  in  17 S3  :  Males,  11  ;  Females ,  11  ;   Total,  22. 


(195) 

Campbell. 

Jany 

ist. 

Jan' 

ist. 

Irving. 

Jan* 

ist. 

Byers. 

Jany 

5th- 

Turner. 

Jany 

22d. 

Black. 

Jany 

2  2d. 

Jany 

2  2d. 

Jany 

2  2d. 

Jany 

2  2d. 

Lackey. 

Jany 

2  2d. 

Jany 

2  2d. 

Henry. 

Jany 

29th. 

McComb. 

Jany 

30th. 

Hamilton. 

Feby 

Ist. 

1784. 

Mary  Campbell,  an  Adult. 

Ann,  Daur  of  James  Campbell  and  Mary  Thorn- 
ton his  wife,  born  Nov'  ist,  17S3. 

Washington,  Son  of  William  Irving  and.  Sarah 
Saunders  his  wife,  born  April  3d,  1783. 

John  Washington,  son  of  James  Byers  and 
Hannah  Bickers    his   wife,    born  July   2i£t, 

1783- 
William,    Son   of  William    Turner    and    Sarah 

Adams  his  wife,  born  Febry  13th,  1783. 
Jane,  Daur  of  James  Black  and  Abigail  Bush 

his  wife,  born  Feb0'  12th,  1777. 
John,  their  son,  born  Febry  21",  1779. 
William,  their  son,  born  June  21st,  17S1. 


Janet,  their  daughter,  born  Nov 


1783. 


Mary,  Daur  of  Robert  Lackey  &  Susannah  Noe 

his  wife,  born  Janry  4:h,  1  780. 
John,  their  son,  born  Novr  20th,  1782. 
Michael  &  Elias,  Twin  Sons  of  John  Henry  & 

Leah  Brevoort  his  wife,  born  Janry  3d,  17S4. 
Elizabeth,   Daur  of  John  McComb   and  Mary 

Davies  his  wife,  born  Novr  22d,  1779. 
Ann,  Daur  of  Andrew  Hamilton  and  Catharine 

Finton  his  wife,  born  Decr  21st,  1783. 


140 


Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.        [Jul)', 


CONKLIN. 

Feb' 

5th- 

Stiles. 

Feby 

13th- 

Carter. 

Feb' 

19th. 

Swan. 

Feby 

27  th. 

(196) 
McCreddy. 

March 

5'V 

March 

5,h- 

March 

5,h- 

Match 

5,h- 

Arhart. 

March 

5th- 

March 

5,h- 

March 

5'\ 

March 

rth 

Norwood. 

March 

7*. 

March 

/     • 

Fleming. 

March 

„th 

/     • 

Miller. 

March 

8th. 

Ford. 

March 

16th. 

March 

16th. 

March 

16th. 

GlRAUD. 

AT arch 

1 6th. 

McKlNNON. 

March 

21st. 

Gale. 

March 

28th. 

Miller. 

March 

30*. 

March 

30". 

Brooks. 

March 

30th. 

March 

30". 

(i97) 
McBain. 

April 

4th. 

Trainer. 

April 

4th. 

Ogilvie. 

April 

>-th 
/     • 

April 

/     • 

Joshua,  son  of  Moses  Conklin  &  Charity  Bab- 
cock  his  wife,  born  Jan0,  21st,  17S3. 

Jane,  Daur  of  Jonathan  Stiles  &  Sarah  Tuttle 
his  wife,  born  Janiy  2  2d,  1784. 

Hannah,  Daur  of  Vincent  Carter  and  Mary 
Benson  his  wife,  born  Septr  Ist,  1781. 

Jennet,  Daur  of  Benjamin  Swan  &:  Mary  Mc- 
Clain  his  wife,  born  Janry  29th,  1784. 

Richard,  son  of  James  McCreddy  &:  Elizabeth 
Young  his  wife,  born  Febry  13th,  1776. 

George,  their  son,  born  Septr  15th,  1778. 

Frances,  their  Daur,  born  Decr  9th,  1780. 

William,  their  son,  born  Decr  22d,  1782. 

Gideon,  son  of  George  Arheart  and  Margaret 
Harden,  his  wife,  born  Sept"  24th,  1776. 

James,  their  son,  born  Decr  13th,  1778. 

Janet,  their  Daur,  born  March  13th,  1781. 

Robert,  their  son,  born  Augst  29th,  17S3. 

John  Rysil.e,  son  of  Tobias~Norwood  <S:  Chris- 
tian Rysile  his  wife,  born  Septr  5th,  1780. 

Richard,  their  son,  born  Janry  28,  17S4. 

Elizabeth,  Daur  of  John  Fleming  and  Margaret 
Cowser  his  wife,  born  Feb0'  14th,  1784. 

John  &  William,  Twin  Sons  of  William  Miller 
&  Mary  Neilson  his  wife,  born  March  3d, 
1784. 

Mary,  Daur  oi  James  Ford  and  Martha  Oaks 
his  wife,  born  Jan0'  26th,  1784. 

Martha,  their  Daur,  born  March  6th,  1782. 

Priscilla,  their  Daur,  born  Febry  18,  1784. 

Joseph,  son  of  Frederick  Giraud  and  Rebekah 
Post  his  wife,  born  April  2  2d,  1782. 

Mary,  Daur  of  Neil  McKinnon  and  Mary  Mc- 
Kellar  his  wife,  born  Febry  6th,  1784. 

Jesse,  son  of  Jesse  Gale  and  Lucretia  Fee  his 
wife,  born  Febry  15th,  1784. 

Margaret  A  villa,  Daur  of  Alexander  Litch 
Miller  &  Margt.  Demilt  his  wife,  born  No- 
vember 13th,  1 7  So. 

Isaac  Litch,  their  son,  born  Feb0  19th,  1783. 

Sarah,  Daur  of  Timothy  Brooks  and  Catharine 
Dutcher,  his  wife,  born  March  27th,  1781. 

Lucy,  their  Daur,  born  Nov*  29th,  17S3. 

James,  son  of  John  McBain  and  Rachel  Bois 

his  wife,  born  Septr  8th,  1783. 
Thomas,  son  of  John  Trainer  and  Mary  Yerks 

his  wife,  born  March  8th,  1784. 
William,  Son  of  Peter  Ogilvie  &  Ann  DeWitt 

his  wife,  born  April  16th,  1782. 
Catharine,  their  Daur,  born  March  1st,  1784. 


885-] 


Notes  and  Queries. 


141 


I  VERS. 


April 


Herring. 

April 
April 

12th. 
12  th. 

Arden. 

April 

I  2th. 

WlER. 

April 

iS,h. 

Phcenix. 

April 

18th. 

Cameron. 

April 

19* 

Williams. 

April 

aS*. 

DeGrove.         April 
Ross.  May 

Thompson.       May 
Van  Voorhis.  May 

('93) 

Lightburn.      May 


26th. 
9th. 

16th. 

16th. 


Jennet,  Daur  of  Hezekiah  Ivers  and  Mary 
Arden  his  wife,  born  Septr  17th,  17S1. 

Eliza,  their  Daur,  born  July  5th,  1  7S3. 

Elizabeth,  Daur  of  Abraham  Herring  and  Eliza- 
beth Ivers  his  wife,  born  Sepf  5th,  1782. 

Thomas  Boyle,  son  of  Thomas  Arden  Junr  and 
Mary  Boyle  his  wife,  born  Janry  20th,  1779. 

Ann,  Daur  of  James  Wier  6c  Eliz01  Riely  his 
wife,  born  Janry  3ict,  1784. 

Amelia,  Daur  of  Daniel  Phcenix  and  Elizth  Piatt 
his  wife,  born  March  50th,  1784. 

William  Henry,  son  of  Alexander  Cameron  & 
Abigail   Berrien,    his   wife,  born  April   15th, 

Mary,  Daur  of  William  Williams  and  Catharine 

Jones  his  wife,  born  April  6th,  1784. 
Sarah,    Da.ur  of  William    DeGrove   and   Eliztn 

Elsworth  his  wife,  born  Octr  8th,  1783. 
Martha  Lyon,  Daur  of  Andrew  Floss  and  Mary 

Lyon  his  wife,  born  March  i6vh,  17&4. 
John   Kforin   Scot,    son   of  Charles   McKnight 

and   Mary   Scot   his  wife,    born   April    ?o,h, 

1784. 
John,  son  of  John  Thompson  and  Hannah  Cox 

his  wife,  born  March  11th,  1  7S4. 
Catharine,    Daur   of  Jacob   Van   Voorhis    and 

Martha  Haight  his  wife,  born   March   ic'h, 

1784. 


16th.  Benjamin,  Son  of  Benjamin  Lightburn  and  Su- 
sannah Benson  his  wife,  born  Augst  16th. 
17S3- 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES. 

Early  Settlers  of  Monmouth  County,  N.   J. — Lawrence. — I  am  at  present 

engaged  in  leisure  hours  in  making  out  historical  and  genealogical  notes  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.  When  I  was  last  at  Freehold,  N.  J.  (last  November  , 
I  took  numerous  notes  of  first  settlers.  In  regard  to  the  Lawrence  family  I  copied  the 
enclosed  and  thought  I  could  complete  it  by  referring  to  the  numerous  notices  of  the 
Lawrence  family  in  the  Record  and  in  the  publications  of  the  genealogy  of  the  Law- 
rences by  members  of  the  family.  But  to  my  surprise  I  cannot  make  them  "  dovetail  " 
in  any  branch  I  have  met.  I  supposed  our  Monmouth  William  Lawrence,  the  first  (Mon- 
mouth, 1667),  was  one  of  the  three  brothers  who  came  over  who  have  been  so  often 
written  about.  Probably  lie  was,  and  after  1676  he  may  have  gone  back  to  "  Middle- 
borough,"  L.  I.  The  William  Lawrence,  brother  of  John  and  Thomas,  who  came  to 
this  country  in  the  ship  Planter,  1635,  died  in  the  early  part  of  16S0,  and  I  infer  he  died 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  New  York.  But  the  William  Lawrence,  Jr.,  who  married  Ruth 
Gibbons.  16S6.  I  cannot  account  for.  He  does  not  seem  to  answer  to  the  son  of  the 
first  William  (of  Flushing),  who  is  said  to  have  married  Deborah,  daughter  of  Richard 
Smith,  in  1680.  The  question  I  cannot  solve  is,  "  Who  was  the  father  of  William  Law- 
rence. Jr.,  of  Monmouth  ?  "  If,  as  would  naturally  be  supposed,  he  was  the  son  of  ike 
first  William  Lawrence,  of  Monmouth,  then   the   latter   could  not  have  been  the   noted 


14 2  Notes  and  Queries?  I7ub'> 

William  of  Flushing,  and  we  have  another  William  Lawrence  to  account  For,  besides  the 

one  who  came  in  the  Planter.  Not  expecting  to  meet  any  difficulty,  when  I  was  at  Free- 
hold, in  rightly  placing  the  first  and  second  William  after  I  reached  home  and  looked 
over  published  account-;,  I  neglected  closely  to  examine  deeds  there  recorded  naming 
Lawrences.      Some  might  possibly  give  some  clue. 

It  has  been  a  matter  of  notoriety  among  genealogists  who  have  examined  into  the 
account  of  the  family  as  published  by  Thomas  Lawrence,  of  Providence  (185S),  that  it 
contains  many  errors,  and  it  perhaps  may  err  in  its  notice  of  William,  Jr.,  son  of  the  first 
William. 

The  following  from  original  and  reliable  records  may  be  of  use  to  persons  interest.:  1  in 
the  genealogy  of  the  Lawrence  family. 

Among  the  original  purchasers  from  the  Indians  of  the  land  in  Monmouth  County, 
N.  J.,  was  William  Laurence.  In  an  agreement  recorded  in  the  old  Middletown  Town 
Book,  December,  1670,  he  describes  himself  as  ''sometimes  an  inhabitant  of  Middle- 
borough  Long  Island."  In  the  first  division  of  town  lots  at  Middletown,  recorded 
December  30,  1667.  he  was  assigned  lot  number  31,  and  also  an  outlot  numbered  28.  A 
week  later,  January  6,  166S,  he  was  appointed  an  overseer,  and  again  1670-71.  In  April 
of  the  same  year  he  was  one  of  a  committee  to  make  arrangements  to  build  a  mill  for  the 
new  settlement.  This  arrangement  was  to  be  with  Robert  Jones,  of  New  York.  In  July. 
1669,  he  was  elected  deputy.  September  20,  1671,  he  was  again  chosen  deputy,  but 
declined  the  office  li  making  satisfactory  excuse."  January  1,  1673-  (legal  year  1672, 
calendar  year  1673).  he  was  again  chosen  deputy.  January  1,  1676,  he  was  chosen  con- 
stable, but  declined  the  office. 

The  agreement  above  referred  to  is  dated  December  3,  1670,  and  is  as  follows :  ;*  James 
Mills  (formerly  shippmaster  and  living  on  James  River  in  Virginia)  and  William  Laurence 

came  lefore   : '  thio   .lay   ..   have  a  f_. sale  of  land  made  void  wch  is  as  follows 

Whereas  I  James  Mills  had  formerly  received  a  bill  of  sale  of  William  Laurence 
sometimes  an  inhabitant  of  Middleborough  on  Long  Island,  for  his  house  and  land  there  ; 
wch  said  bill  (being  casually  burnt  by  w*"h  means  the  tennor  and  date  of  the  said  bill  is 
unknowne  :  Therefore  wee  the  said  James  Mills  and  William  Laurence  doe  by  these 
present?  declare  that  all  bills  of  sale  of  what  tennor  and  date  soever  are  by  mutual  agree- 
ment of  us  viz.  William  and  James  are  by  these  presents  made  void  and  of  none  effect 
notwithstanding  any  Record  in  any  towne  or  court  manifesting  to  the  contrary.  In  wit- 
ness here  of  they  have  hereunto  sett  their  hands.  James  Mills, 

"  Testified  by  mee  William  Laurence. 

"Edward  Tartte." 

Edward  Tartte  was  town  clerk  of  Middletown. 

The  above  appears  to  be  about  all  the  mention  found  of  William  Laurence  in  the  old 
Middletown  Town  Book. 

Next  appears  the  name  of  William  Laurence,  Jr..  who,  the  Town  Book  states,  was 
married  to  Ruth  Gibbons,  June  24,  16S6,  and  had  children  there  recorded  as  follows  : 

i.  William,  born  Nov.  1,  16SS. 

ii  Elizabeth,  born  Dec.  3,  1690. 

iii.  Robert,  born  Sept.  25,  1692. 

iv.   Richard,  born  July  11,  1694. 

v.  John,- born  Aug.  22,  1696. 

vi.   May,  born  Dec.  28,  169S. 

It  is  probable  the  above  entry  was  made  by  William  Laurence,  Jr.,  himself,  as  he  was 
chosen  town  clerk  1696,  and  continued  in  the  position  until  1700,  and  perhaps  later.  The 
mill  of  William  Laurence  is  referred  to,  1709,  and  a  William  Laurence,  probably  the 
same,  was  member  of  the  Assembly  1707-10-16-21. 

In  an  affidavit  made  in  17 16,  recorded  in  records  in  Freehold  Court  House,  a  William 
Laurence,  Jr.,  says  he  was  then  aged  twenty-seven  years;  this  must  have  been  the  third 
William,  and  son  of  William,  Jr. 

In  the  records  in  Freehold  Court  House  are  frequent  mention  of  members  of  the 
Laurence  family  in  deeds,  court  proceedings,  road  surveys,  etc.  Among  them  Elisha's 
lands  are  referred  to,  1701  ;  Joseph's  lands,  1709;  James' lands,  17 14.  But  the  most  fre- 
quent mention  previous  to  this  time  was  of  William  and  William,  Jr. 

Who'was  this  William.  Jr.,  who  married  Ruth  Gibbons  in  1GS6  ? 

Washington^  D.  C.  EDWIN  Salter. 

Feke.  —  Tohn  Bowne,  of  Matlock,  County  Derby,  Eng.,  afterward  of  Flushing, 
L.  I.,  married  in  16=56,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Robert  Feke.      The  following  memorandui  : 


1885.]  Obituary.  I  AX 

occurs  in  a  journal  of  John  Bowne  among  some  matters  to  be  attended  to  during  a  visit 
to  England  in  1676  :  "  My  wife's  L'nckel  James,  is  a  doctor  of  fisick  and  did  live  formerly 
in  the  ould  Belie  at  the  sine  of  the  three  fanes — her  Ants  name  Alse  Dickson  formerly  it 
was  Alse  Feke."  j.  t.  BOWNE. 

Brooklyn,  April  8,  1S85. 

Harencarspel. — Sir  Henry  VAN  HARENCARSPEL,  born  in  1691  at  Utrecht 
(Holland),  lived  as  an  eminent  merchant  on  the  Island  of  St.  Thomas  (West  Indies),  and 
died  piobably  in  the  year  1730  at  New  York.  Is  there  anybody  who  can  give  the  correct 
year  of  his  death  and  the  name  of  his  wife  ?  A.  A.  VORSTERMAN  VAX  OIJEN. 

The  Hague. 

Mandavil. — Will  of  Francis  Mandavil  (Signed  "  Mandeveld  "),  of  New  Windsor, 
in  the  County  of  Ulster,  dated  July  6.  1776,  proved  March  2,  1779.  Mentions:  "  beloved 
wife  Mary,"  who  receives,  among  other  bequests,  land  in  Orange  County,  and  the  new 
house  which  the  testator  was  then  building.  The  rest  of  his  estate  goes  to  his  "  four  sons 
and  two  daughters,  David.  Corneiiouse,  John,  Jacob,  Martha,  and  Frances." 

Gives  "  eldest  son  David  house  and  land  at  Murder's  Creek." 

Executors  :  Wife  Mary  and  sons  David,  Corneiiouse,  and  John  (N.  Y.  Wills,  Liber 
33»  f-  85).  RUFUS    KING. 

Yonkers,  N.    Y. 

Mol. — Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  what  were  the  Christian  names  of  the 
children  of  Jan  Jansen  Mol,  who  married  Engeltie  Pieters  in  New  York  in  1675,  and  also 
whom  their  daughters  married.  C.   M. 

Hudson  River,  May,  18S5. 


OBITUARY. 


Churchill. — Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Churchill,  born  August  18,  1S56,  at  Easthampton, 
Mass.,  died  in  New  York  City,  May  27,  1SS5.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Atherton 
Clark,  of  Mayflower  descent,  and  Harriet  (daughter  of  Dr.  Enosi  Smith,  descended 
from  an  early  Wethersheld  settler.  She  graduated  from  V\riliiston  Seminary,  in  1S55, 
taking  high  rank  in  a  class  of  over  forty  members.  In  May,  1869,  she  came  to  tins  city, 
at  the  invitation  of  the  late  Dr.  D.  P.  Hoiton,  to  assist  him  in  his  genealogical  researches; 
and  became  perhaps  the  best  and  most  trusted  of  the  little  band  of  pupils  whom  he  trained 
to  his  favorite  pursuit.  She  was  married  December  9,  1S74,  to  Captain  William  B. 
Churchill,  who  died  January  4,  1SS3,  aged  fifty-four  years.  Both  husband  and  wife  were 
sincere  Christians  and  her  dying  confession  of  faith  was  in  these  words:  lt  Jesus  is  my 
hope  and  righteousness."  She  rests  with  her  husband  and  kindred  in  West  Side  Cemetery, 
at  Guilford,  Conn. 

A  dominant  trait  in  her  character  was  single-hearted  and  unswerving  devotion  to  what 
she  considered  her  duty.  What  her  hand  found  to  do  she  did  with  the  thorough  sincerity 
of  a  nature  that  longed  for  perfectness  in  all  her  life.  Her  lovmg  trust  in  the  goodness 
of  God  always  kept  her  heart  brave  when  many  a  one  would  have  given  up  the  struggle 
in  despair. 

Mrs.  Churchill's  principal  genealogical  work,  upon  which  several  of  the  last  years  of 
her  life  were  assiduously  spent,  was  the  "  Humphreys  Genealogy,"  now-  in  process  of 
publication.  Its  correspondence,  arrangement,  and  press  supervision  were  mainly  in  her 
hands  as  associate  editor  ;  and  the  six  hundred  pages  already  published  afford  the  highest 
possible  testimony  to  her  skill,  ripe  judgment,  and  enthusiabin  as  a  genealogi.-t.  Her 
methods  of  genealogical  work  and  notation  were  perfect ;  and  her  painstaking  accuracy 
was  the  natural  outcome  of  that  conscientiousness  of  which  we  have  already  spoken  as 
being  her  distinguishing  trait.  Especially  was  this  conspicuous  in  the  admirable  manner 
in  which,  during  the  few  last  working  weeks  of  her  life,  she  arranged  the  vast  amount  of 
unpublished  material,  correspondence,  etc.,  of  the  "  Humphreys  Genealogy,"  in  such  per- 
fect order  that  other  hands,  upon  whom  her  labors  devolved,  have  found  not  the  slightest 
difficulty  in  taking  up  the  thread  where  she  laid  it  down.  H.   R.   s. 

Preble. — George  Henry  Preble,  Rear- Admiral  United  States  Navy,  who  died  at 
Brookline,  Mass.,  March  1st,  was  born  in  Portland.  Me.,  February  25,  1S16.  The 
memory  of  his  uncle's  (Commodore  Preble)  gallant  exploits  was  still  a  force  in  the  navy 
when,  in  1835,  young  Preble,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  became  a  midshipman  and  the  next 


144  Obituary.  [July,  1885. 

spring  was  sent  out  to  Europe  in  the  frigate  United  States.  From  the  European  station 
he  was  sent  to  cruise  in  the  West  Indies.  In  1841,  he  returned  to  his  native  land,  and  at 
the  Naval  School,  which  had  been  established  at  Philadelphia,  received  his  warrant  as 
passed-midshipman.  From  August,  1841,  to  August,  1842,  Midshipman  Preble  was 
acting-lieutenant  of  the  schooner  Madison  and  brigantine  Jefferson,  on  the  Florida  expe- 
dition. After  serving  awhile  on  the  receiving-ship  Ohio,  at  Boston,  he  went  out  as 
acting-master  on  the  sloop-of-war  St.  Louis.  Of  this  ship  he  subsequently  became  acting- 
lieutenant,  and  in  her  circumnavigated  the  globe.  While  on  this  cruise  he  had,  in  1S44, 
command  of  the  first  American  armed  force  ever  landed  in  China.  With  his  blue-jackets 
and  marines  he  landed  at  Canton,  and  protected  the  American  Consulate  and  the  foreign 
residents  of  the  city  from  the  assaults  of  the  Chinese,  who  had  risen  to  massacre  the  ''out- 
side barbarians." 

When  the  Mexican  War  broke  out,  Treble  went  out  as  executive  officer  of  the  schooner 
Petrel,  and  participated  in  the  surrender  of  Alvarado,  Laguna,  Tampico,  and  Panuco,  and 
assisted  at  the  siege  of  Vera  Cruz.  Preble  was  nov.-  rapidly  promoted  and  in  JS4S  became 
a  lieutenant.  He  did  some  good  work  in  the  coast  survey  and  in  1S51  went  to  Europe  in 
the  frigate  St.  Lawrence,  which  took  the  American  exhibits  to  the  world's  fair  at  London 
and  conveyed  the  American  Minister  to  Lisbon.  He  went  on  the  Japan  expedition  in 
1S53,  and  then,  as  commander  of  the  chartered  steamer  Queen,  made  surveys  of  Chinese 
and  Japanese  harbors.  He  particularly  distinguished  himself  in  expeditions  against  the 
Chinese  pirates,  receiving  the  thanks  of  Commander  Abbot  ond  the  "English  Admiral,  Sir 
James  Stirling,  for  his  gallant  services  in  that  respect.  He  prepared  sailing  directions  for 
Shanghai  which  were  published  by  the  American  and  English  governments. 

On  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  he  took  command  of  the  steamer  gunboat  Katah- 
din  and  reported  to  Admiral  Farragut,  then  commanding  the  West  Gulf  Squadron.  He 
was  present  a:  the  j-.^c^i  of  I*-:'.:  jP.^.:-r:ri  and  St.  Philip  and  at  the  surrender  of  New 
Orleans.  He  became  commander  and  fought  under  Farragut  in  all  that  hero's  sea-fights 
until  September,  1862,  when  he  was  summarily  dismissed  the  service  for  not  preventing 
the  Rebel  cruiser  Oreto,  afterward  called  the  Florida,  from  running  the  blockade  of  Mobile 
Bay.  Preble  was  the  senior  oncer  present  at  the  time  that  the  Oreto  ran  the  blockade. 
It  was  subsequently  proved  beyond  doubt  that  Preble  was  not  to  blame  in  the  matter,  and 
in  the  following  February  he  was  restored  to  his  rank  and  position.  Soon  after  he  was 
sent  out  to  Lisbon  to  take  command  of  the  sailing  sloop  of  war  St.  Louis  and  ordered  to 
cruise  for  rebel  corsairs  around  the  Azores.  From  there  he  sailed  to  the  American  coast, 
on  his  way  falling  in  with  the  vessel  which  had  caused  his  dismissal,  the  Florida,  at  Ma- 
deira. The  Florida  was  coaling  in  the  harbor  and  Preble  sailed  in  and  demanded  that  no 
more  coal  should  be  put  aboard.  Determined  to  atone  for  having  let  her  slip  by  him  at 
Mobile.  Preble  decided  that  as  soon  as  the  Florida  left  the  neutrai  waters  of  the  harbor 
he  would  attack  her  with  his  wooden  sailing  vessel.  One  of  the  most  desperate  naval  fights 
on  record  would  have  taken  place  off  the  shores  of  Madeira  had  not  the  Florida  taken  ad- 
vantage of  a  calm  and  steamed  out  of  the  harbor.  As  soon  as  a  breeze  sprang  up  Preble 
spread  his  sails  in  pursuit  but,  of  course,  was  unable  to  catch  the  swift  cruiser. 

In  November,  1864,  Commander  Preble  took  command  of  the  Fleet  Brigade,  consist- 
ing of  sailors  and  marines,  organized  at  Port  Royal  and  designed  to  assist  General  Sher- 
man's approach  to  the  coast.  In  the  command  of  this  brigade  he  distinguished  himself 
by  his  skill  and  bravery.  The  war  closing  Preble  was  sent  in  command  of  the  steamer 
State  of  Georgia  to  Aspinwall,  to  look  after  American  interests  there.  His  vessel  and 
the  Huntsville  rescued  six  or  seven  hundred  people  from  the  wrecked  steamship  Golden 
Rule,  near  Aspinwall.  Preble  then  returned  home  and  served  on  shore  duty  and  on  the 
North  Pacific  Station  until  1876,  when  he  became  Rear- Admiral  and  took  possession  of  the 
South  Pacific  Station.  In  February,  187S,  he  was  placed  on  the  retired  list,  having 
reached  the  age  of  sixty-two. 

During  the  past  seven  years  the  Admiral  occupied  much  of  his  time  at  his  residence, 
Cottage  Farm,  Brookiine,  in  literary  pursuits.  He  was  the  author  of  >l  A  Genealogy  of 
the  Preble  Family,"  1S6S,  and  of  several  other  works,  the  best  known  of  which  is  "The 
History  of  the  United  States  Flag;  "  and  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  United  Service 
Magazine,  and  other  periodicals.  At  the  time  of  his  unexpected  death — he  died  suddenly 
of  heart  disease — he  was  contemplating  an  enlarged  and  more  exhaustive  edition  of  his 
"  History  of  Steam  Navigation."  He  was  buried  among  his  kinsmen  in  his  native  place, 
Thursday  afternoon,  March  4th,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  Hill,  Ex-President  cf  Harvard 
University,  officiating.  With  the  Admiral's  death  the  New  Voik  Genealogical  and  Bio- 
graphical Society  loses  a  valuable  corresponding  member,  a  great  name  passes  from  the 

J.    G.   W. 


THE   NEW   YORK 

(Scncatogtcal  anir  §t0grH||icaI  ^ttm. 


Vol.   XVI.  NEW  YORK,    OCTOBER,    1SS5.  No. 


THE  ARMS  OF  THE  STATE  OF  NEW  YORK  AND  HOW  THEY 
HAVE  BEEN  ALTERED. 


By  the  Rev.  Beverley  R.  Betts. 


Several  years  ago  attention  was  directed  by  (he  Record  (vol.  iii.,  p. 
119)  to  the  existence  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  New  York,  of  an  old  painting 
of  the  arms  rrm-  mot^  gr>d  snptiorters  cf  the  State  of  New  York,  and 
its  importance,..as  the  only  known  early  representation  which  gave  the  two 
constituent  parts  of  armorial  bearings,  viz.  :  drawing  and  color.  It  is 
well  known  that  arms,  as  they  were  called,  that  is  to  say,  an  armorial 
achievement,  consisting  of  a  coat-of-arms,  a  crest,  a  motto,  and  two  sup- 
porters, with  their  proper  colors,  were  devised  for  the  Sovereign  State  of 
New  Y7ork  at  a  very  early  period  of  its  independence  ;  that  they  were 
adopted  by  a  law  passed  on  March  16,  1778;  and  that  the  blazon  or 
scientific  description  of  them  was,  by  a  section  of  that  law,  ordered  to  be 
deposited  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State.  This  description,  how- 
ever, has  long  ago  disappeared  ;  but  fortunately  the  picture  in  St.  Paul's 
Chapel  bears  internal  evidence,  perfectly  appreciable  to  those  who  have 
even  an  elementary  knowledge  of  heraldry,  of  having  been  made  from  it; 
and  a  recent  discovery  of  a  very  old  and  very  beautiful  representation  of 
the  arms  of  New  York,  complete  and  perfect  both  in  drawing  and  coloring, 
adds  external  evidence  to  the  internal,  and  leaves  no  reason  to  regret  the 
loss  of  the  original  description  or  blazon. 

In  1875,  tiie  Committee  on  the  Restoration  of  Independence  Hall,  in 
connection  with  the  Centennial  Exposition,  expressed  a  wish  to  place  the 
arms  of  the  original  thirteen  States  in  Independence  Hall.  The  duty  of 
furnishing  the  arms  of  New  York  was  entrusted  to  Mr.  Edward  F.  de 
Lancey  by  Governor  Tilden,  and  an  appropriation  was  made  by  the  Leg- 
islature for  the  purpose  of  having  two  paintings  made,  one  to  be  placed  in 
Independence  Hall  in  Philadelphia,  and  the  other  to  be  hung  in  the  State 
Library.  Mr.  de  Lancey  then  proceeded,  with  the  aid  of  the  late  Rev. 
Robert  Bolton  and  the  present  writer,  whom  he  believed  to  be  competent 
advisers,  to  carry  out  the  directions  of  the  Legislature.  There  could  be 
no  doubt  in  an  instructed  mind  that  the  painting  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel 
showed  the  original  arms  of  the  State,  consisting  of  the  sky,  the  sea  and 
the  rising  sun,  all  in  their  natural  colors  upon  the  shield  ;  and  there  would 
have  been  nothing  to  do  but  to  copy  it  as  it  stood,  arms,  crest,  motto,  and 
supporters,  had  it  not  been  for  the  fact  that  the  arms  are  drawn  in  what 


K}6  The  Arms  of  the  State  of  New  York  [Oct. 

heralds  call  an  "augmented"  form  in  the  great  seals  of  179S  and  1809. 
That  is  to  say,  a  range  of  three  mountains  is  added  in  them  and  interposed 
between  the  sky  and  the  sea.  A  grave  question  immediately  arose  whether 
the  wishes  of  Lhe  Legislature  would  be  best  carried  out  by  giving  the  arms 
with  or  without  the  mountains.  After  much  deliberation  and  many  consul- 
tations, it  was  determined  to  adopt  the  former  course  ;  chiefly  for  the  reason 
that  the  device  of  the  great  seal  of  1  798,  which  contains  them,  had  been  also 
declared  by  the  Legislature  to  be  the  arms  of  the  State  {i.e.,  a  drawing  of 
them,  without  any  indications  of  color),  and  had  always  been  accepted 
as  such  without  doubt  or  question.  It  was  not  known  then,  nor  is  it  known 
now,  by  what  authority  the  mountains  were  added,  but  it  was  a  plain 
case,  often  arising  in  heraldry,  and  perfectly  well  understood,  of  what  are 
technically  called  '"'ancient"  and  "  modern  "  arms.  There  are  two  forms 
of  the  arms  of  the  Sovereign  State  of  New  York,  just  as  there  are  of  the 
royal  arms  of  France  and  of  England.  In  all  three  instances  the  older 
form  has  become  obsolete  and  the  newer  one  has  come  into  ordinary  \ise. 

In  giving  instructions  for  the  paintings  that  were  made  in  1 S 75  several 
matters  of  detail  required  careful  attention,  but  none  of  them  presented 
any  difficulties.  The  great  seals,  though  they  were  said  to  contain  the  arms, 
really  contained  only  drawings  of  them,  without  the  lines  which  are  usually 
enipfoj  :J  by  chilled  engraver's  to  denote  the  colors.  Therefore  no  infor- 
mation as  to  the  color  of  the  mountains  could  be  derived  from  them.  The 
painting  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  although,  as  shall  be  immediately  explained, 
it  required  correction  in  some  points,  was,  nevertheless,  a  sufficient  guide 
in  all  other  respects  ;  but  the  color  of  the  mountains  could  only  be  ascer- 
tained by  the  application  of  intelligence  and  reason  to  certain  principles  of 
art.  Fortunately  it  required  no  very  profound  knowledge  of  Heraldry  to 
be  aware  that  the  color  must  be  green.  In  the  seals  and  the  painting  the 
eagle  in  the  crest  was  so  badly  drawn  that  it  was  impossible  to  determine 
positively  what  his  attitude  was  meant  to  be.  .  It  was  at  last  resolved  to 
draw  him  "rising  regardant''  (rising,  looking  backward),  because  the 
painting,  the  seals,  and  all  known  engravings  appeared  to  place  him  in  that 
position.  It  was  perfectly  well  known,  however,  to  Mr.  de  Lancey  and  his 
advisers  that  this  was  an  unusual  and  unreasonable  attitude,  and  that  the 
eagle  ought  to  be  drawn  looking  forward  to  the  right.  The  dress  of  the 
supporters  in  the  painting  was  a  sort  of  russet  gray.  It  was  obvious  to  a 
practised  eye  that  this  had  faded  from  some  other  color,  which  could  have 
been  no  other  than  gold.  Nevertheless,  the  actual  coloring  in  the  paint- 
ing was  followed.  Mr.  de  Lancey  and  his  advisers  were  well  aware  that 
things  which  are  perfectly  clear  to  experts  in  any  subject  may  be  obscure 
to  minds  that  have  not  considered  them.  They  desired  to  avoid  any  pos- 
sible suspicion  of  having  been  guided  in  any  point  by  conjecture  ;  they 
were,  therefore,  unwilling  to  allow  any  variation  from  the  painting  in  St. 
Paul's  Chapel,  except  in  correcting  the  drawing  of  the  eagle  and  in  insert- 
ing the  mountains,  for  both  of  which  they  had  ample  authority  ;  for  the 
first  in  the  rules  of  art,  which  define  the  proper  methods  of  drawing  all 
figures,  and  for  the  second  in  the  evidence  of  the  great  seals  of  1798  and 
1809.  The  wisdom  of  their  course  and  the  correctness  of  their  judgment 
were  demonstrated  by  the  remarkable  discovery  which  has  been  already 
mentioned,  and  which  shall  now  be  described  at  greater  length. 

This  was  the  flag  of  the  Third  New  York  regiment,  borne  by  it  during 
the  war  of  the  Revolution,  now  in  the  possession  of  the  family  of  Mrs. 


1 885. J  and  how  they  haze  been  Altered.  jr 

Abraham  Lansing,  of  Albany,  who  had  inherited  it  from  her  ancestor, 
Colonel  Peter  Gansevoort,  of  that  regiment.  Mr.  Homes,  of  the  State 
Library,  in  one  of  his  interesting  papers  ("The  Correct  Arms  of  New 
York,1'  p.  21),  says  that  ';  this  flag  was  unfurled  with  great  ceremony  at  the 
centennial  celebration  at  Oriskany,  in  1877,  exciting  a  thrill  of  admiration 
in  the  fifty  thousand  people  assembled  there;''  but  he  does  not  mention 
how  attention  came  to  be  directed  to  it  in  the  first  place.  Its  existence 
was  entirely  unknown  to  Mr.  de  Lancey,  Mr.  Bolton,  and  the  present 
writer  in  1875  I  ano"  ^  was  certainly  gratifying  to  them  to  learn  that  they 
had  been  able  to  reproduce  the  arms  as  it  showed  them.  This  flag,  which 
must  have  been  made  between  177S  and  1781,  contains  a  representation 
in  color  of  the  arms  of  the  State,  complete  and  perfect  both  in  drawing 
and  color  and  heraldically  accurate.  It  has  in  the  shield  the  sky,  the  sea. 
the  rising  sun,  and  three  mountains,  which  last  are  green.  The  -eagle  in 
the  crest  looks  forward.  The  supporters  are  clothed  in  gold.  It  corre- 
sponds, therefore,  in  all  particulars,  with  what  Mr.  de  Lancey  and  his  ad- 
visers had  said  in  1875  were  tne  true  arms  of  the  State,  though,  for  the 
reasons  already  given,  they  had  allowed  certain  variations  to  be  made  in 
the  paintings  which  were  executed  under  their  supervision.  The  fact  that 
these  gentlemen,  from  the  very  imperfect  materials  at  their  command,  were 
rKl~  to  reproduce  a  picture  made  nearly  a  hundred  years  before,  which 
they  had  never  seen,  and  of  the  existence  of  which  they  were  ignorant,  is 
a  proof  of  their  intelligence  and  competence.  This  picture  also  shows  that 
the  Legislatures  of  1798  and  1S09  were  right  and  knew  what  they  were  do- 
in^  when  thev  said  that  the  great  seals  contained  the  arms  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  though,  of  course,  only  in  outline.  The  drawing  of  the  great 
seals  is  the  same  as  that  of  the  painting  in  the  flag,  and  it  is  easy,  by  the 
aid  of  the  latter,  to  supply  the  color  in  which  the  seals  are  wanting. 

In  1SS0  the  Legislature  passed  certain  resolutions  appointing  commis- 
sioners to  report  an  exact  description  of  the  arms  of  the  State,  and  pre- 
fixed to  the  resolutions  the  following  preamble  :  "Whereas,  in  view  of  the 
variations  in  the  current  representations  of  the  State  arms,  and  of  the  un- 
certainty in  respect  to  the  correct  device  thereof  as  adopted  by  law  in 
1778,  the  State  has  recently  made  two  special  appropriations,''  etc.  This 
is  certainly  overstated.  There  were  no  variations,  from  a  heraldic  point 
of  view,  in  the  current  representations  of  the  arms,  though  there  was  a 
great  deal  of  bad  drawing,  which,  however,  any  tyro  ought  to  be  able  to 
correct,  and  a  general  absence  of  the  engraver's  marks  denoting  color. 
There  was  never  any  uncertainty  in  the  mind  of  Mr.  Bolton  or  of  the  pres- 
ent writer,  and  probably  none  in  the  mind  of  Mr.  de  Lancey,  or  of  any  one 
who  understood  the  subject. — Before  the  production  of  Mrs.  Lansing's 
flag  the  evidence  was  sufficient.  Afterward  it  was  complete  and  irrefrag- 
able. 

With  this  evidence  before  them,  the  duty  cf  the  commissioners  under 
the  act  of  1880  was  plain  and  obvious.  It  was  to  take  the  great  seals  of 
the  State  of  179S  and  1809,  which  contained  the  arms  in  outline,  to  cause 
drawings  to  be  made  from  them  according  to  rule,  and  to  supply  the  colors 
from  Mrs.  Lansing's  flag.  This  would  have  been,  in  effect,  to  reproduce 
the  painting  in  the  flag,  which  is  complete  and  heraldically  accurate,  and 
about  which,  therefore,  there  can  be  no  question  nor  possibility  of  doubt. 
Unfortunately,  however,  the  commissioners  allowed  themselves  to  be  led 
astray  by  an  untoward  accident,  in  consequence  of  which  they  fell  into  a 


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14S  The  Arms  of  the  State  of  New  York  [Oct., 

series  of  mistakes,  and  ultimately  failed  most  deplorably  in  accomplishing 
what  they  had  undertaken  (Xote  1). 

In  the  summer  of  1S7S  Mr.  de  Lancey  made  a  curious  and,  as  it  has 
turned  out,  a  most  unfortunate  discovery.  He  found  in  the  possession  of 
an  antiquarian  friend  in  Westchester  County  a  work  of  art,  which  he  caused 
to  be  photographed,  a  copy  of  which  he  sent  to  Mr.  Homes,  and  which 
Mr.  Homes  assumed  to  have  been  meant  for  a  representation  of  the 
"armorial  achievement  of  the  State"  ("  Correct  Arms,"  p.  19).  It  was 
an  elegantly  engraved  military  commission,  with  an  illuminated  initial 
letter  "T,"  containing  in  its  centre  an  engraving  which  might,  indeed,  to  an 
uninstructed  eye,  look  like  a  coat-of-arms,  but  which,  when  the  rules  of  art 
are  applied  to  it,  will  not  bear  analysis.  This  engraving  is,  for  the  period, 
as  Mr.  de  Lancey  says  in  a  letter  to  Mr.  Homes,  "as  fine  a  piece  of  copper- 
plate engraving  as  I  know  of  executed  in  America.1'  It  is  a  part  of  the  in- 
terior ornamentation  of  the  letter  T,  and  it  bears  a  certain  resemblance  to  the 
arms  of  the  State,  yet  is  clearly  not  a  "  specimen,"  nor,  indeed,  even  so  much 
as  a  "drawing"  of  them  ("Report,"  p.  9).  A  shield,  indeed,  contains  the 
sky,  the  rising  sun,  and  three  mountains  ;  but  in  the  lower  part  of  the  shield, 
instead  of  the  sea,  which  forms  an  integral  portion  of  the  true  arms,  there 
is  a  meadow  traversed  by  a  river  on  which  are  a  ship  and  a  sloop  approach- 
hJS  each  other.  Oi"5:dcvof  th;?  ?hic!d  are  an  eagle,  figures  of  Liberty  and 
Justice,  and  the  motto,  Excelsior.  The  whole  is  without  any  engraving 
marks  denoting  color,  and  there  is  little  or  nothing  of  a  heraldic  character 
about  it.  There  is  no  evidence,  either  external  or  internal,  to  indicate 
what  it  is  intended  to  represent.  The  only  admissible  conjecture  is  that 
it  was  a  study  from  the  arms  of  the  State  made  by  the  engraver  for  the 
purpose  of  decorating  the  commissions  in  which  it  has  been  found.  The 
initial  letter  in  which  it  occurs  forms  a  part  of  a  military  commission, 
printed  in  the  usual  way,  with  blanks  intended  to  be  filled  up  in  writing, 
and  has  also  in  it  the  name  of  the  engraver,  Dawk-ins.  Mr.  de  Lancey's 
copy  is  dated  June  15,  17.78,  and  was  at  first  throught  to  be  unique  ;  but 
further  investigation  has  shown  that  many  copies  exist  in  Albany  and  else- 
where. The  Rev.  Mr.  Frazee,  in  whose  possession  Mr.  de  Lancey  found 
it,  subsequently  presented  it  to  the  State  Library. 

Mr.  Homes,  in  his  interesting  and  otherwise  admirable  pamphlet  "The 
Correct  Arms  of  the  State  of  New  York  "  (p.  19),  immediately  assumed 
that  this  engraving  was  a  representation — a  "  specimen,"  he  calls  it — of  the 
arms  of  New  York.  It  could  by  no  possibility  be  anything  of  the  kind, 
because  it  is  a  mere  drawing,  without  color,  which  is  an  essential  part  of 
the  arms.  But,  apart  from  the  difficulty,  which  appears  to  be  insuperable, 
that,  if  it  were  accepted  as  a  correct  drawing,  there  would  be  no  means  of 
supplying  the  color  which  is  lacking,  this  assumption  of  Mr.  Homes'  in- 
volves consequences  of  the  gravest  character.  All  the  clear  and  conclu- 
sive evidence  which  has  been  given  in  the  earlier  part  of  this  paper  must  be 
rejected.  The  declarations  of  the  Legislature  in  1798  and  1809,  that  the 
great  seals  of  those  years  contain  the  arms  of  the  State  of  New  York,  though 
they  are  true  as  far  as  the  drawing  is  concerned  and  form  part  of  the  law 
of  the  State,  must  be  cast  aside.  The  evidence  of  Mrs.  Lansing's  ilag, 
though  it  contains  a  complete  example  of  the  arms  of  the  State,  perfect 
both  in  drawing  and  color,  and  thus  tills  cut  and  completes  the  information 
given  by  the  great  seals  and  vindicates  the  accuracy  of  the  statements  made 
by  the  Legislature  in  179S  and  1S09,  must  be  treated  as  if  it  were  of  no 


1SS5.]  a?id  how  they  have  been  Altered.  149 

value.  Xor  is  this  all.  As  Mrs.  Lansing's  flag  was  made  not  very  long 
after  the  engraving  of  this  commission,  yet  is  a  wholly  different  design,  it 
follows  that,  if  the  engraving  be  what  it  has  been  supposed  to  be,  all  know- 
ledge of  the  true  arms  was  immediately  lost,  continued  lost  for  a  hundred 
years,  and  is  now  only  imperfectly  recovered.  The  truth  is,  that  all  that 
has  been  said  about  this  engraving  and  its  imaginary  value  rests  wholly 
upon  conjecture.  There  is  not  a  particle  of  evidence,  either  external  or 
internal,  to  sustain  it ;  and  the  huge  and  unfounded  assumption,  made  solely 
by  Mr.  Homes  and  adopted  by  the  commissioners,  has  led  them  into  all 
manner  of  entanglements  and  difficulties.  They  have  strayed  from  the 
regions  of  evidence  and  proof  into  those  of  guess-work,  uncertainty,  and 
romance  (Xote  2). 

However  honorable  and  honored  the  commissioners  may  be  in  private 
life,  however  skilful  and  eminent  in  their  ordinary  avocations,  their  report 
shows  that  they  have  not  acquired  even  an  elementary  knowledge  of  the 
subject  committed  to  them,  and  which  they  took  in  hand.  It  -is  hardly 
credible,  yet  it  is  certain,  that  they  do  not  even  know  what  a  coat-of- 
arms  is  (Xote  5).  They  actually  assume  that  a  mere  engraving,  without 
any  indications  of  the  coloring,  which  is  an  essential  part  of  arms,  is  of 
greater  authority  than  a  finished  painting  of  the  same  period.  This  curious 
id~..  leadi  Lhoii;  Lhiougli  a  ^^o^  oi  ilie  most  singular  and  inaccurate 
reasoning  (beginning  wrong,  of  course  they  go  wrong  to  the  end),  and 
finally  brings  them  face  to  face  with  a  difficulty  which  they  meet  in  a  very- 
extraordinary  fashion.  Having,  without  any  proof  at  all,  and,  indeed,  in 
defiance  of  very  clear  and  conclusive  evidence,  decided  that  one  of  the  in- 
terior ornaments  of  the  initial  letter  of  certain  engraved  commissions  of  1  7  7S 
contains  the  arms  of  Xew  York,  they  discover  that  they  have  only  arrived, 
after  all,  at  the  drawing,  and  that  they  must  supply  the  color  in  some  other 
way.  Of  course,  in  the  absence  of  any  authority,  there  is  no  way  but 
guessing  at  it;  and  they  accordingly  guess.  They  avoid  the  very  impor- 
tant and  authoritative  enactments  of  the  Legislature  in  179S  and  1809, 
that  the  great  seals  of  those  years  contain  the  arms  of  Xew  York,  thoi  gh 
those  enactments  form  a  part  of  the  law  of  the  Stare,  by  the  simple  process 
of  taking  no  notice  of  them — ignoring  them.  Perhaps  this  was  their -wisest 
course  ;  for  had  they  done  otherwise,  they  would  have  involved  themselves 
in  the  absurdity  of  saying  that  laws  passed  in  179S  and  1809  had  been  re- 
pealed by  an  ornamental  engraving,  made  twenty  or  thirty  years  before. 
upon  a  military  commission.  This  might  seem  to  some  minds  a  singular, 
though  necessary,  conclusion  of  their  argument  :  but  really  there  is  no 
escaping  from  it.  The  only  parallel  to  it  is  that  curious  judgment  of  the 
Judicial  Committee  of  the  Privy  Council  which  set  all  England  laughing  a 
few  years  ago.  to  the  effect  that  an  Act  of  Parliament  passed  in  166c  had 
been  repealed  by  certain  injunctions  supposed  to  have  been  issued  (but 
which  really  had  not  been  issued)  by  Queen  Elizabeth  in  15 58. 

In  good  earnest,  however,  the  commissioners  and  their  secretary.  Mr. 
Homes,  with  the  very  best  intentions  in  the  world,  meaning  to  do  right, 
but  not  in  the  least  understanding  what  they  were  about,  have  dov.c  a 
very  serious  piece  of  mischief.  They  have  deprived  the  people  of  the  State 
of  Xew  York  of  their  time-honored  armorial  insignia,  and  have  given  them 
instead  an  invention  of  their  own.  Thereby  hangs  a  tale  which,  perhaps, 
for  modesty's  sake,  ought  not  to  be  told  ;  but,  as  there  is  no  harm  in  it, 
it  shall  be.  ■  When  the  commissioners  had  completed  their  design  to  their 


150  The  A     is  of  the  Statt    /  ."■"  u    3  [Oct.. 

own  satisfaction,  their  secretary  applied  to  the    ;  Titer  to  make  a 

;n  or  writl  m  description  oi  lang    ige.      -    is  was  revers- 

ing !        usual  order  of  thii  gs,  fc :  a  herald  alv.a  s  zon  before 

his  painter  begins  t  ' : .  ■  uj  n  the  same  principle  that  lead  ui's  litect 
to  finish  his  plans  before  his  builder  puts  t  g  :ther  his  bri<  and  m  >rtar. 
This    '   ficulty,  th     gh  a  serious  one.  ive  been  overcome, 

I  there  not   been  worse   difficulties   be  it     It  became   necessary, 

therefore,  th  1  gi    at  reluctance,  t     lecli    .-  :     accede  to  the  re     iest, 

upon  the  not  ..  ;  groi     I  that  what    ad   been  contrived 

commissioners  was    nol  at-  f-arms   at  all,  for  want  of  colors,  and  for 

si  very  sufficient  rea       5   into  which   it  is  not   necessary  to  en  I 
was,   therefore,   nol    sus   *ptible    af  a  tec  lescripti  n.      Thereupon 

some  o::?  elyj  (whe  he  01  she  was  the  writer  does  not  know),  tried  his  or 
her  hand  at  :..  Res  set  r  the  result  it  is  only  necessary  to  say  that  it 
was;.-:  what  mig    t  ...     ■     een  expected. 

Hie  rest  of  the  si  r  is  c  m  told.  On  1  [ay  : :.  1882,  the  I  .-_'-'  t  re 
passed  "  an  act  to  re-estat  ish  t  original  anus  rf  the  State  >f  New  York, 
and  to  provide  fc  r  the  use  thei  ic  seals,"  of  h  this  is  the 

first  section  :  "Thedevi  e  >fai  -  _:'...—  e,  as  adopted  March  16,  17  7S. 
is  hereby  declared  to  be  correctly" described  as  follows.''  EMiis  is  slig  tly 
tautological,  . .  r  a  Jevice  is  ..  [iescripiion.  Then  comes  the  remarkable 
]    cumei  :  tc   whi  - .    ....  is     n  has  been  made,  of  which  r    .  re  shall  be 

said  in  this  place  a  an  that  it  a]  pears  to  be  an  attempt  to  describe,  in  v  hat 
its  author  conceives  !  be  heraldic  languac  t  a  brand-new  invention  f  the 
commissioners.  But  whatever  its  meaning  a  I  pur]  se  i  y  be,  it  is  clear 
that  it  cannc  t  be  what  it  professes  to  be  as  far  as  one  can  understar  1  it), 
viz.:  a  reprc  ..;.:..:'  the  original  lesc  ption  of  the  arms  of  New  York, 
for  the  sin  le  reas  ..  that  the  _  —  was  leposited  a  the  office  ;:'  the 
Secretary  of  State,  more    than  Ired        ars  ago,  and  is  lost  so  efie  ctu- 

ally  that  nc  living  man  has  ever  laid  eyes  upon  it   (Note  ..  , 

The  Legislature  ?f  18S2  has  :-a;  resse  .'.  itself  more  boldly  and  a  ssitively 
(as  well  as  more  carelessly  and  inaccurateh  than  as  ;  rede  lessors  did  in  17c  : 
and  1S09,  or  than  any  ale;  :  w  Lid  a  ture  to  do.  All  that  the  former 
Legislatures  have  said  is  that  the  great  seals  >f  those  years  ;ontain  the  arms 
of  the  State,  which  is  true,  so  far  as  the  hawing  is  concerned.  Ah  that 
ski  k  I  and  :  jmj  etent  ;  ers  3ns  have  sai  I  is  :  at  pail  tir  gs  exist  ■  hich  bear 
internal  evidence  of  having  been  made  frc  1  the  Driginal  iescription,  which 
having  c  lor,  supply  rl  at  is  lacking  ir  the  sjreat  seals  and  which  there- 
fore, are  a  sufficient  2  .'  ie  ::  theknowlc  ige  A  the  true  arms  of  the  State  ; 
and  that,  as  has  kne  fledge  is  now  perfect,  the  "  original  device "  has  lost 
whatever  value  it  may  f  :..-'.  ave  ;  1  ssesse  h  and  need  neither  be  sought 
for  nor  ,:corre:A.  described."  About  these  clear,  definite,  and  temj  *rate 
statements  there  is  n  3  doubt  nor  ai  .'  '_  lity.  There  is  no  conjecture,  no 
taking  for  granted,  nc  g .  -.  -:  ng,  but  the]  rest  .:;  a  evidence  and  reasoning, 
tested  by  technical  and  scientific  knowledge.  The  work  of  the  c 
s  -  lers  and  jf  the  Legislature  of  1882,  ...  the  >ther  hand,  is  nothing  more 
nor  less  than  a  giga  itic  .ess. 

1:  is  ieej  a   tc  be  re  grette  !  tr  at  the  1  e:  is  ature  sh    ill  1  have  ~  :;a  mis- 
led by  the  incompete      y  3f  its  advisers,  and  should  Y  ave  1    ally  repudiated, 
.. le  it  believed  itself  to  be  re-esla    lis  the  true  and   time-honored  ar- 

morial  insignia  of  the  State.      T   e  misc  a        is  been  done  ;  and 

the  only  h      2    A  repairing  it   lies  in  the   possible  effect  that  may  be  pro- 


1SS5.]  and  how  they  have  been  Altered.  j  -  I 

dticed  by  pointing  out  the  mistakes  that  have  been  made,  and  the  false 
reasonings  that  have  led  to  the  present  deplorable  result.  With  this  sole 
object  in  view,  and  in  no  spirit  of  fault-finding,  and  with  the  profoundest 
feelings  of  respect  for  wise,  honorable,  and  intelligent  men,  who  have 
failed  simply  for  lack  of  the  special  knowledge  which  was  necessary  to  en- 
able them  to  understand  and  weigh  the  evidence  before  them,  the  present 
paper  has  been  prepared. 

Note  i. — It  is  very  possible  that  the  first  draft,  from  which  the  painting 
in  St.  Paul's  Chapel  was  made,  was  never  actually  adopted.  Indeed  the 
fact  that  the  mountains  appear  in  Mrs.  Lansing's  flag  and  in  very  early 
engravings  of  which  the  commissioners  seem  to  be  ignorant,  make  it  prob- 
able that  such  was  the  case.  Evidence  exists  that  they  were  added  to  the 
arms  before  May  18,  1778,  and  if  the  chapel  painting  were  made,  as  these 
gentlemen  aver,  in  t  ~S^,  it  is  not  easy  to  see  why  the  artist  should  have  gone 
back  to  a  design  which  had  become  obsolete.  In  the  light  of  the  present 
knowledge,  the  question  as  to  when  or  why  the  chapel  painting  was  made 
is  of  no  earthly  consequence  ;  the  great  seals  of  179S  and  1S09,  and  Mrs. 
Lansing's  flag,  as  has  been  explained  in  the  text,  cover  the  whole  ground. 
Useful  and  necessary  as  the  chapel  painting  was  in  1S75,  ^l  has  n°,>v  be- 
come of  hvrich  less  importance,  The  fact  that  the  commissioners  make 
such  a  talk  about  it  in  their  report,  and  the  pertinacity  with  which  they 
dwell  upon  details  of  no  value,  show  that  their  minds  were  not  clear,  nor 
their  knowledge  perfect.  In  further  evidence  of  the  singular  confusion  of 
their  ideas  it  may  be  mentioned  that  they  actually  affirm  that  the  device  of 
the  chapel  painting  is  not  the  earliest,  because  it  "omits"  the  mountains 
("  Report,"  p.  19).  If  one  may  be  pardoned  for  the  plainness  of  the  expres- 
sion, this  is  putting  the  cart  before  the  horse.  It  is  tantamount  to  saying, 
what  is  no  doubt  true  enough,  that  these  gentlemen  are  ignorant  of  the 
very  elementary  rule  that  arms  are  formed,  or  changed,  not  by  taking 
away  from  them,  but  by  adding  one  charge  after  another — in  the  language 
of  art,  not  by  diminishing,  but  by  augmenting.  To  an  expert  their  idea  is 
simply  ludicrous.  It  is  precisely  as  if  these  worthy  gentlemen  were  to  try 
to  put  a  roof  on  a  house  before  they  have  laid  the  foundation.  The  way 
in  which  the  real  arms  of  the  State  were  formed  is  explained  in  Note  3. 
They  were  begun  in  the  usual  way,  at  the  beginning,  and  not  at  the  end, 
as  the  commissioners  appear  to  think. 

Note  2. — Every  representation  of  the  arms,  public  and  private,  that 
has  been  known  since  1778  gives  the  same  device,  the  sky,  the  sea.  and 
the  sun.  All  but  one  add  the  mountains.  This  illuminated  initial  letter 
in  the  commissions  of  1778  was  not  only  never  reproduced  anywhere  or 
by  anybody,  but  it  was  absolutely  unknown  and  forgotten  for  a  hundred 
years.  There  is  not  a  particle  of  evidence,  internal  or  external,  to  show 
what  it  is  meant  to  represent,  except  itself.  Is  it  reasonable  to  assume, 
not  only  that  it  is  the  arms  of  New  York,  but  also  that  it  ought  to  super- 
sede and  be  substituted  for  what  has  been  accepted  as  the  true  arms  for 
a  hundred  years  ?  Yet  the  commissioners  speak  of  it  as  one  of  three 
"  examples"  of  the  arras.  This  unfounded  notion  vitiates  all  their  argu- 
ment. 

Note  3. — X  coat-of-arms  consists  of  a  field,  or  surface,  upon  which 
certain  figures,  called  charges,  are  placed  in  accordance  with  settled  rules. 
These  are  enclosed  in  an  escutcheon  or  shield.     Outside  of  the  shield  are 


152  The  Anns  of  the  State  of  New  York.  [Oct., 

the  crest  and  motto,  and  in  the  case  of  sovereigns  and  peers,  the  sup- 
porters. These  are  called  the  externals.  The  whole  are  colored,  also  in 
accordance  with  settled  rules  ;  and  the  shield,  with  the  externals,  forms 
the  armorial  achievement,  or  brie;;}-,  the  arms.  These  can  be  represented 
either  by  a  proper  description,  a  painting,  or  by  an  engraving  so  ar; 
as  to  give  the  correct  colors;  but  certainly  not  by  an  ordinary  engraving, 
for  the  simple  reason  that  it  does  not  give  the  colors,  technically  called 
tinctures.  In  all  engravings,  properly  made  in  accordance  with  the  well- 
understood  rules  oi  heraldic  art,  there  are  certain  lines  and  dots  which 
indicate  the  tinctures;  but  these  are  wanting  in  the  letter  of  1778.  Care 
has  been  taken  in  the  text  to  point  out  that  the  evidence  of  the  great  seals 
extends  only  to  the  charges,  i.e.,  the  drawing.  The  same  is  true  of  the 
much-talked-of  engraved  initial  letter  of  1 7  78.  Whatever  it  may  be  intended 
to  represent,  it  gives  nothing  but  drawing.  There  is  no  indication  of  color 
and  it  is  perfectly  useless  for  any  practical  purpose.  The  evidence  of  the 
great  seals,  however,  is  filled  out  and  completed  by  two  finished  paintings. 
The  only  possible  mode  in  which  the  engraving  of  1 7 7S  could  have  come 
into  existence  is  the  following  :  In  the  true  painting  the  outline  of  the 
shield  was  hrst  drawn  :  then  a  horizontal  line  was  drawn  across  the  middle  ; 
the  sky  was  painted  in;  then  the  sea;  then  the  sun,  all  in  their  proper 
colors;  Snail/  l«e  mountains  were  added,  irid  *u?  coat-of-arms  was  thus 
finished,  as  it  has  existed  for  more  than  a  century.  In  order  to  construct 
the  engraved  initial  letter,  the  sea  was  removed,  and  a  landscape,  con- 
sisting of  a  meadow,  a  river,  a  ship,  and  a  sloop',  was  substituted  for  it. 
The  facts  that  this  was  never  finished  in  color;  that  it  never  appears  any- 
where but  in  the  initial  "T"  of  the  word  "  the,''  which  is  the  first  word  in 
certain  commissions  ;  that  it  was  lost  s;gh:  of  ana  forgotten  for  a  century, 
and  that,  when  it  was  brought  to  light,  no  account  could  be  given  of  its 
origin  or  meaning;  that  the  known  and  accepted  arms  of  the  State  are 
altogether  different  and  have  been  used  during  the  whole  century,  tl  gh 
with  all  sorts  of  bad  drawing — are,  to  say  the  least,  a  strong  argument  that 
the  assumption  made  by  Mr.  Homes,  and  adopted  by  the  commissioners, 
is  rash  and  unsuj  ;  urted.  It  would  not  only  be  possible,  but  easy,  to  point 
out  how  a  student  of  heraldry  knows  how  the  arms  were  constructed,  just 
as  it  would  be  possible  to  explain  how  Professor  Owen  could  reconstruct 
a  skeleton  from  a  bone  or  two;  but,  in  either  case,  the  explanation  would 
involve  a  long  technical  discussion,  too  long  for  a  magazine. 

Note  4.- — It  is  a  curious  illustration  of  the  fatality  which  seems  to  pur- 
sue the  commissioners  that  their  new  "device"  should  be  about  as  bad  a 
specimen  of  drawing  as  any  of  those  which  they  condemn  (  -'Report,''  p.  16). 
Their  sun,  globe,  and  eagle  are  simply  abominable,  and  their  mountains 
are  not  much  better.  There  are  known  and  recognized  methods  of  draw- 
ing heraldic  charges,  which  are  disregarded  in  the  new  "device."  The 
blunders  of  the  commissioners  ought  to  be  a  salutary  warning  to  people 
who  lay  down  the  law  on  subjects  of  which  they  are  ignorant.  The  very 
remarkable  composition  which  the  Act  of  May  20.  1S82  ("Laws  of  New 
York,"  1SS2,  chap.  190),  calls  a  "correct  description  of  the  device  of  arms 
of  this  State,  adopted  March  16,  i77S.':  appears  to  be,  as  to  the  parts  of  it 
which  are  intelligible,  imitated  from  the  careful  and  accurate  description 
of  the  arms  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel,  given  in  the  Record  (vol.  iii.,  p.  119): 
but,  in  one  point,  the  writer  seems  to  have  followed  his  or  her  model  with 
rather  too  much  precision.     He   or   she  has   carefully  reproduced 


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words:  "Supporters  on  a  quasi  compartment  formed  by  the  extension  of 
the  scroll."  These  words  can  have  no  possible  application  to  the  new 
"device,"  as  they  are  merely  in-tended  to  point  out  a  peculiarity  in  the 
drawing  of  the  chapel  painting.  In  English  heraldry  a  long  and  narrow 
figure  like  a  ribbon,  called  the  "scroll,'"  bears  the  motto  and  supporters. 
In  Scottish  heraldry,  however,  a  kind  of  carved  panel,  called  a  "compart- 
ment," takes  the  place  of  the  scroll  and  does  its  duty.  The  St.  Paul's 
painting  has  neither  scroll  nor  compartment,  but  has  instead  a  curious 
figure  partaking  of  the  character  of  both,  as  is  briefly  stated  in  the  words 
quoted  above.  As  all  other  "  specimens  "  of  the  arms,  whether  real  or 
imaginary,  including  the  new  invention  of  the  commissioners,  have  a  true 
scroll,  it  will  be  seen  at  once  that  the  application  of  these  words  to  them 
is  unmeaning,  not  to  say  ridiculous,  and  that  it  reflects  no  great  credit 
upon  the  commissioners  and  their  counsellor,  whoever  he  or  she  may  be. 


GENEALOGICAL    RECORD    OF    TEN    BROECK    FAMILY    IN 

NEW  JERSEY. 


By  George  C.  Beekman,  Esq. 


Wessell  Tex  Broeck  is  a  well-known  name  in  the  early  annals  of 
Kingston,  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.  lie  was  among  the  first  settlers  of 
Esopus,  as  that  town  was  formerly  called,  and  is  said  to  have  built  the 
stone  house  known  as  the  "  Senate  House,'"  and  still  standing  in  Kings- 
ton, as  early  as  1676. 

By  his  first  wife,  Maria  Ten  Eyck,  he  had  several  sons  and  daughters. 

Among  his  sons  was  Jacob,- baptized  March  25,  168S.*  Fie  married. 
January  17,  1712,  Elizabeth  Wynkoop,  and  died  at  Kingston,  where  he 
always  lived,  in  April,  1746.  His  wife  was  b.  at  Hurley  in  1690.  and  died 
ar  Kingston,  February  12,  1761.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Major  Johannis 
Wynkoop  by  his  wife  Judith  Bloodgood,  who  was  born  at  Flushing.  Zea- 
land, t  in  Europe.  Several  letters  written  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Ten  Broeek, 
in  Dutch  language,  to  her  son  Cornelius,  in  New  Jersey,  are  still  in  ex- 
istence. 

Jacob  Ten  Broeek.  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Wynkoop.  had  the  following 
children,  all  born  at  Kingston  : 

1.  VVessell,  baptized  December  7,  1712,  m.  September  5,  1734, 
Neeltje  Dewitt,  and  settled  on  lands  bought  by  his  father  at  what  is  now 
called  Harlingen,  Somerset  County,  N.  J.,  where  he  died  in  1747. J  and 
was  buried  on  the  farm.  He  left  at  least  one  daughter,  who  married 
William  Chamberiin,  and  three  sons,  "Wessell,  Tjerck.  and  Jacob,  surviving 
him. 

2.  Johannes,  baptized  December  12,  1714,  m.  September,  1738, 
Caterina  Ten  Eyck,  settled  on  lands  of  his  father  at  Harlingen,  N.  J., 
and  died  there  in  December,  1738,  and  was  buried  on  the  farm.  He  is 
said  to  have  built  the  first  house  at  or  in  the  vicinity  of  what  is  now  Harlingen, 
N.  J.  It  was  a  log-house,  and  stood  between  the  brick  farm-house,  after- 
ward erected  by  his  brother  Cornelius    and   still  (1885)  standing,  and  the 

*  Church  Record  of  Kingston. 

t  Kingston  Church  Records  :  Wynkoop  Genealogy,  pages  38-39  and  42-43.  _  ... 

t  letter  fr  >m  his  brother  Cornelius  to  his  mother,  informing  her  of  Wessell's  'ast  sickness  and  his  dying 

ir.^isc-ge,  is  in  my  possession. 


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1 34.  Record  of  the  Ten  Broeck  Family  in  New  Jersey.        [Oct., 

brook.     His  wife  was  delivered  of  a  child  after  his  death,  who  was  named 
Johannes. 

3.  Maria,  baptized,  June  30,  171 7.  m.  November  10,  173s,  Henry 
Dewitt,  d.  -May  19,  1707. 

4.  Cornelius,  b.  May  31,  171  y  tized  June  30th  following,  m.  at 
Kingston,  September  2.  174  .  rg  iret  Louw  (Low),  settled  at  Harlingen, 
N.  J.,  same  year,  and  ci.  there  August  4.  1790.  He  represented  Somerset 
County,  in  the  Xevv  Jersey  I.  gisl  .  ire,  in  the  year  1783,  and  was  the  first 
Assessor  o(  Hillsborough  Township,  Somerset  County,  X.  J.  Me  was  an 
active  patriot  during  the  revolutionary  war.  He  was  buried  on  the  farm 
by  the  side  of  his  two  brc  thers. 

His  wife  was  bom  at  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  October  1.  1726,  and  d.  at 
Harlingen,  X.  J..  January  29,  1790. 

The  following  is  a  translation  of  a  letter  in  Dutch  written  by  the  mother 
of  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck's  wife.  It  is  addressed  to  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck 
at  Rocky  Hill,  X.  J.,  then,  as  now,  the  Post-office  for  the  people  of  that 
vicinity  : 

"Sopis,  April  24,  175S. 

"  Dear  Children  : 

I  am  very  anxious  to  hear  from  you.  for  I  have  not 
heaiu  since  youi  Iclter  of  January  3-.  in  which  I  read  that  the  smallpox 
was  close  by  your  home.  This  is  one  of  my  reasons,  unless  there  is  too 
great  risk,  that  Margaret  should  go  there.  There  has  been  quite  an  ex- 
citement here  am  >ng  us  on  account  of  recruiting  men,  but  we  are  all  light 
now.  The  strong  and  serviceable  Harry  Jansen,  First  Lieutenant,  and 
Cornelius  VVynkoop,  Second  Lieutenant,  are,  with  their  men,  stationed  on 
the  outer  frontiers.  Your  mother  (Mrs.  E.  Ten  Broeck)  and  all  of  us, 
thanks  to  God.  are  pretty  well.     Love  to  all  from  your  affectionate  mother, 

"  Hendrika  Low/5 

5.  Judickje,  baptized  August  15,  1721.  m.  Tennis  Van  Vechten,  of 
Caatskiil,  and  died  in  March,  1783.     Her  husband  died,  April  3,  1785.* 

6.  Jacob,  ha;  tized,  May  3,  1724;  m.  Gerritje  Smedes ;  died  at  King- 
ston, where  he  always  lived,  leaving  sons  and  daughters. 

7.  Catharine,  baptized  December  4,  1726  (no  other  record). 

A  number  of  letters  written  by  the  Dewitts,  Wynkoops,  Van  Vechtens, 
Ten  Broecks.  Lows,  at  Kingston  and  X'ew  Vork  City,  to  Cornelius  Ten 
Broeck.  in  X.  J.,  from  1746  to  1793.  are  in  my  possession.  Many  of  them 
are  in  Dutch,  and  in  the  ;  :c  diar  dialect  then  used. 

Cornelius  Ten  Broeck,  by  ins  wife  Margaret  Louw,  had  the  following 
children,  all  born  at  Harlingen,  X.  J. 

1.  Catharine,  b.  June  3.  1 747,  baptized  July  following  by  Dominic 
Retzma,  m.  Abraham  Williamson. 

2.  Jacob,  b.  February  12,  1750,  baptized  March  7th  following,  d. 
unmarried,  October  5,  1776.  from  cold  and  fever  contracted  while  serving 
with  the  militia  on  Bergen  Hill,  in  rear  of  Jersey  City.  He  came  home 
from  camp  sick  and  soon  died. 

3.  Hannah,  b.  November  5.  1752,  baptized,  December  3d  follow- 
ing, m.  Jacob  Wihiamson. 

*  Letter  from  sons  t     tl    ir  Uncle    Cornelius,  informing  im      •   :'- :\r    leaths,  in  poss                  One  ci 

Judickje's  sons     Lbraham  Van.  V       ten,  si       ...       -  .      ;  it  A                        -  the  first]      ;           : 

his  day  in  Ne.v  York.     A                  ■  " .            ....               <  .  -.                K                  :  is    Uncle  Com 

in  New  Jersey,  is  in  my  possession,      id  shows  a  remark;  ie  command  c         guage i  .     .    : 


• 


1885.]         Record  of  the   Ten  Broeck  Family  in  New  Jersey.  \  c  t 

4.  Elizabeth,  b.  June  21,  1755,  baptized  July  13th  following,  m.  first 
Christopher  Van  Pelt,  second  a  Longstreet. 

5.  Cornelius,  b.  December  25,  1757,  baptized  April  8th  following, 
d.  at   New  Brunswick,  X.  ].,  unmarried.     He  also  served  in  the  American 

army  during  Revolutionary  war.  Letters  from  him  and  his  brother  Peter, 
while  with  the  American  Army,  to  their  father,  were  published  in  Volume 
II.j  pages  16S  to  175  of  the  Magazine  of '  America?i History. 

6.  John,  b.  June  21,  1 760,  baptized  July  31st  following.  He  studied 
medicine  and  was  licensed  as  a  physician.  Settled  in  Virginia,  where  he 
practised  a  number  of  years,  then  went  to  State  of  New  York,  and  there 
disappeared.  It  is  supposed  that  he  never  married.  When  and  where  he 
died  is  unknown. 

7.  Peter,  b.  November  7,  r762,  baptized  November  28th  following. 
lie  entered  Queen's  College,  as  Rutgers  College,  at  New  Brunswick,  N.  J., 
was  then  called.  Whether  he  graduated  or  not  is  unknown.  He  entered 
the  Continental  army  and  served  until  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  war. 
Was  at  the  surrender  at  Yorktown.  After  the  Avar  he  followed  surveying  for 
a  time  on  the  extreme  frontiers,  and  in  New  York.  He  then  engaged  in 
some  kind  of  business  at  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  and  resided  there  several 
years.  While  here  he  formed  an  intimate  friendship  with  Penimore 
Cpoper.  In  Iris  ''Chainbearer  "series  of  novels,  Cooper  has  drawn  one  of 
his  Dutch  characters,  whose  life  and  character  bears  a  marked  resemblance 
to  that  of  Peter  Ten  Broeck.  A  familiar  allusion  is  made  to  Van  Vechten, 
the  celebrated  lawyer  of  Albany,  and  an  own  cousin  of  Peter,  which  might 
well  have  fallen  from  his  lips.  Pie  finally  left  Cooperstown  and  settled  at 
Onondaga,  in  New  York,  where  he  died,  unmarried,  from  injuries  received 
from  an  accidental  fall  on  ice. 

8.  Abraham,  b.  September  6,  1765.  baptized  November  13th  follow- 
ing, m.  in  April,  1S07,  Eliza  Howell,  of  Trenton,  N.  J.,  d.  in  Philadelphia, 
January,  1841.  He  attended  school  at  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  of  which  Mr. 
Gasherie  was  principal.  Studied  law  and  settled  at  Cooperstown.  N.  Y., 
where  he  practised  law  several  years.  It  is  reported  in  the  family  that  he 
served  a  term  or  two  in  the  New  York  Legislature,  but  how  true  this  is  I 
do  not  know.  After  his  marriage  he  moved  to  Philadelphia,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death.  He  left  two  sons  and  one  daughter  surviving  him. 
His  sons  both  married,  but  his  daughter  remained  single.  His  son  \\  il- 
liam  had  two  daughters  by  his  wife,  and  his  son  Philip  H.  had  two  sons 
and  three  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  still  (1885)  residing  in  Philadelphia. 

9.  Helena,  b.  January  26,  1768,  m.,  17S7,  Samuel  Beekman,  d.  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1855,  and  was  buried  by  the  side  of  her  husband  in  the  old  grave- 
yard of  the  Plarlingen,  N.  J.,  Church.  Samuel  Beekman,  after  the  death 
of  his  father-in-law  in  1790,  bought  out  the  other  heirs  to  the  homestead  at 
Harlingen  and  lived  there  until  his  death.  The  brick  farm-house  erected- 
by  Cornelius  Ten'Broeck  at -Harlingen,  prior  to  the  Revolution,  is  still 
standing  and  retains  its  internal  characteristics,  although  some  changes  were 
made  on  the  outside  in  1852-3  by  Rev.  Jacob  T.  B.  Beekman,  who  added 
a  piazza,  cupola,  and  some  other  improvements,  after  his  father's  death. 
Helena,  the  youngest  daughter,  was  born,  lived,  and  died  in  this  house.  All 
her  children,  whose  names,  etc.,  are  given  in  "  Record  of  Beekman  Family," 
published  in  July.  1885,  number  of  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Record,  were  born  and  raised  here. 

•  The  will  ot  Jacob  Ten  Broeck,  son  of  Wessell,  the  first  of  the  name  at 


jr6  Record  of  tfu  Ten  Breech  Fa  New  Jersey.         [Oct., 

Esopus,  was  written  in  the  Dutch  language.  A  translation  was  made  by 
Mr.  Henry  C.  J.  Schroeder,  of  Red  Bank,  N.  J.,  to  whom  I  am  indebted 
for  all  the  translations  of  the  Dutch  documents  in  my  possession. 


CORNELIUS  TEN  BROECK'S  FAMILY  RECORD. 

1 7 19. — the  31st'  of  May, — old  style. — I  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck  was 
born  at  Esopus,  in  the  County  of  Ulster  ar  .1  Province  of  Xew  York. — 

1726. — is:  Octo'r,  was  1  rn,  in  the  above  mentioned  County, — my 
wife — Margaret  Louw. — 

1746. — 2nd1  Sept'tr — I  Cornelius  Ten  Broeck  was  marrie d  with  Mar- 
garetta  Louw.  at  Esoj  us,  by  Domine  Mancius. — 

1746.  — 15/// — Xov'br. — We  -were  settled  in  the  County  of  Somerset 
and  Province  of  Xew  Jersey. — 

1747. — Tune  3rd'  was  bom  our  daughter  Catharine,  on  Wednesday,  at 
ten  o  clock  in  the  evening. — and  was  baptized  the  31J/  July  in  the  Church 
at  Raritan  by  T)o:.v.ro  Retzma  of  Xew  York.  The  witnesses  were  Jacob 
Ten  Broeck  and  Jane  Louw. — 

1749-50.  Feb'ry  12th  On  Monday  morning  at  five  o-clock  was  born 
far  Soa  Jr. cot  ?.rir\  °~~  tY  ?&\  March  baptized  by  Domine  John  Leight 
at  Simon  Yan  Artsdalen's. — 

1752. — We  came  ever  to  the  new  Style. — so  that  the  next  2nd1  of 
Sep'tr,  became  the  14th'  by  a  Law. — 

1752. — Nov*  5th — was  born  our  Daughter — Hannah,  on  Sunday  even- 
ing at  11  o-clock,  and  baptized,  Dec  ::  yd  in  our  Church  by  Domine 
Frelinghuysen. 

1755. — June  21st  was  born  our  Daughter — Elizabeth — at  two  o-clock 
in  the  afternoon  of  Saturday,  and  on  the  13th'  July,  baptized  at  Six  mile 
Run  by  Domine  John  Leight. — 

1757.  Dec'r — 25th — at  seven  o-clock  on  Sunday  evening  was  born 
our  Son — Cornelius — and  April  Sth — 1 75'S. — baptized  by  Domine  John 
Jackson  in  the  Church  at  X 

1760. — June  21st' — Saturday  morning  4 — o-clock  was  born  our  son — 
John — and  baptized  Wednesday  July  the  30th  by  Domine  Jackson  in  the 
Church  of  Millstone. 

1762. — Nov'r — 7m  at  12 — o-clock  on  Sunday  was  born  our  Son — 
Peter — and  on  Sunday  the  28th  of  Xov'r  baptized  at  Millstone  by  Domine 
J.  M.  Yan  Harlingen. — 

1765. — Sept'r  sixth  at  three  o-clock  on  Friday  evening  was  born  our 
son  Abraham — and  baptized  the  third  X'ov'br  in  the  Church  at  Millstone 
by  Domine  Van  Harlingen. — 

176S. — January  26th — on  Tuesday  at  12 — o-clock — was  born  our 
Daughter  Helena — and  on  Sunday  the  sixth  of  March  baptized  at  Mill- 
stone by  Domine  Van  Harlingen. 

1776. — October  fifth  on  Saturday  one  half  an  hour  after  :en  0  clock  in 
the  morning,  died  my  eldes:  San — Jacob — and  at  three  o-clock.  on  Sun- 
day, sixth  instant,  was  hurried  by  the  side  of  my  eldest  Brothers — Wes- 
sell — and — John — 

1790 — January  29th  on  Friday  morning  died  Margaret  Ten  Broeck  and 
was  burried  the  ensuing  Sur  lay, — 

1790 — August — fourth — on   Wednesday  morning    li-e  a    Cornelius  Ten 


1S85.]  The  Rogers  Lineage.  \cj 

Broeck  and  was  burried  the  ensuing  day.     All  in  the  same  Family  burying 
Ground. — 

The  above  record  except  last  entry  was  kept  in  Dutch  on  a  sheet  of 
heavy  paper,  and  the  cop}-  from  which  the  above  was  made  appears  to  be 
in  the  handwriting  of  his  son  Cornelius.  There  is  also  another  copy  of 
the  same  record  in  which  the  death  of  Cornelius,  the  son,  is  entered. 


THE  ROGERS  LINEAGE. 


By  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  of  Clinton,  N.  Y 

FOURTH    ARTICLE. 


This  article  is  designed  to  conclude,  with  the  three  preceding  it  on 
the  same  subject,  the  discussion  by  the  writer  of  the  whole  topic  to  which 
it  is  devoted.  It  often  proves  true  that,  in  extended  researches,  results 
before  unimagined  are  reached,  which  prepare  the  way  for  larger  discov- 
eries still,  of  value,  that  could  not  have  been  anticipated  at  any  time 
until  they  were  actually  obtained. 

The  writer  has  recently  learned  from  one  of  the  Platt-Kents  at  Platts- 
burg,  N.  Y.  (Mrs.  Dewitt  C.  Boynton,  p.  17,  January  No.  of  the  Rec- 
ord), that  ':  she  has  now  in  her  possession  a  picture  which  she  remem- 
bers from  her  childhood  as  hanging  then  over  the  mantel  in  her  grand- 
mother's room  (Mrs.  Hannah  Kent  Piatt,  sister  of  Chancellor  Kent,  p.  153 
of  October  No.  of  Record  for  1884,  and  also  p.  15,  in  January  No.  for 
18S5),  which  her  grandmother  Piatt  often  told  her  was  the  likeness  of  her 
own  uncle,  Hezekiah  Rogers,  and  that  on  the  back  of  this  picture  is  written, 
in  old-fashioned  penmanship,  and  on  paper  now  yellow  with  age,  this  simple 
record  of  his  life  and  death  : 

"  Hezekiah  Rogers, 

Chief  Clerk  in  the  War  Office, 

In  the  City  of  Washington, 

Died  in  the  year  181 1." 

Warren  R.  Dix,  Esq.,  of  New  York  City,  who  has  been  gratefully  quoted 
several  times  in  the  progress  of  these  articles  on  <k  The  Rogers  Lineage,"  as 
the  source  of  valuable  information  on  previous  points  of  darkness  and 
doubt,  to  which  he  has  been  able  to  bring  new  light  of  real  and  permanent 
value,  had  been  eagerly  examining  "  Hall's  History  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,"  to 
see  what  new  facts  he  might  perchance  find  revealed  there  to  view,  if  any. 
wrote  incidentally  to  the  writer,  without  knowing  at  the  time  anything  of 
what  had  been  written  to  him  in  a  like  incidental  manner  from  Plattsburg, 
to  this  effect,  viz.  :  "  I  find  here  (in  ^Hall's  Norwalk')  an  account  of 
Hezekiah  Rogers,  who  m.  March  9,  1781,  Esther  Raymond  (of  Norwalk, 
presumably)  ;  and  they  had  the  following  children  as  recorded  by  Dr.  Hall : 

"  1.  Sally  Rogers,  b.  July  13,  1781. 

"2.  William  Rogers,  b.  March  16,  1783. 

"  3.  Delia  Rogers,  b.  January  29,  17S5. 

"4.  Charles  Rogers,  b.  September  12,  17S7." 


158  The  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

The  writer  readily  reasoned  with  himself  from  the  facts  thus  detailed, 
that  this  Hezekiah  Rogers  thus  named,  must  have  been  a  son  of  Dr.  Uriah 
Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  and  born  after  his  daughter  Abigail  (No.  10,  IX.,  who 
was  b.  October  14,  1740),  ana  Xo.  10,  n,  or  12,  in  the  order  of  his  chil- 
dren, and  born  somewhere,  in  such  a  case,  between  the  years  1752  and 
1755.  A  letter  of  inquiry  was  addressed  at  once  to  the  Hon.  Secretary 
of  War  at  Washington,  for  any  facts  that  might  oe  procurable  among  the 
records,  or,  at  least,  the  traditions  of  his  office,  concerning  Hezekiah  Rog- 
ers ;  as  of  his  parentage,  and  the  dates  of  his  birth  and  death,  and  the 
names  and  history  of  his  children  ;  but  no  answer  was  returned,  nor  any 
new  facts  of  any  sort  gained  in  such  a  way.  From  James  Kent,  Esq.,  of 
Fishkill-on-the-Hudson,  to  whom  he  also  wrote  earnestly,  for  any  possible 
information  that  he  might  be  able  to  furnish  (as  he  did  also  to  other  mem- 
bers of  the  family,  who  all  replied  that  they  were  unable  to  communicate 
any  light  upon  the  subject),  he  received  the  reply  under  date  of  April  23, 
1SS5,  that  "Hezekiah  Rogers  d.  September  4,.  1S10,  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
aged  51,  and  that  he  was  the  youngest  son  of  Dr.  Rogers  "  (Uriah,  of  X"or- 
walk).  He  said,  also,  that  there  were  other  children  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers, 
and  so  uncle  and  aunt  respectively  to  Chancellor  James  Kent,  but  he  did 
not  give  their  names. 

It  '_  to  be  hoped  th?.t  at  some  near  day  some  one  will  undertake  to 
tell  accurately  to  others,  who  are  specially  interested  in  knowing  ir,  just  as 
it  was  truly  unfolded  to  view,  in  its  historical  aspects  of  beauty  and  power 
of  inspiration,  and  of  influence  for  good  upon  others,  the  story  of  ancestral 
virtue  and  excellence  in  the  full  measure  of  its  real  worth  in  respect  to  the 
two  kindred  lines  of  Rogerses,  of  Norwalk,  Conn..  Uriah  and  Samuel.  The 
account  which  has  been  here  slowly,  but  with  fair  success  at  least,  wrought 
out  by  the  writer,  has  been  by  necessity,  fragmentary,  needing  often  from 
time  to  time  careful  and  critical  revision  and  restatement,  as  new  light 
could  be  obtained  from  any  direction,  in  order  to  be  made  conformable  to 
truthful  and  self-consistent  rules  of  harmonious  construction,  part  with  part, 
as  on  j  bright  animated  picture  of  beautiful  social  history,  well  worthy  of 
the  needful  time  and  toil  demanded  for  its  fit  elaboration.  To  a  future 
student  and  artist,  at  work  diligently  upon  the  same  materials,  to  combine 
and  use  them  to  their  best  advantage,  much  that  has  lain  in  obscurity  hith- 
erto, and  been  difficult  of  handling  effectively,  will  lie  broad  and  clear  and 
warm  in  the  light,  and  plastic  to  the  hand  that  desires  to  mould  and  fashion 
them  to  its  will. 

Concerning  the  supposed  Fitch  ancestry  of  the  descendants  of  Sam- 
uel Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  it  is  manifest  to  the  writer,  after  much  careful 
rejection  upon  the  subject,  that  the  favorite  theories  of  some  of  the  older 
representatives  of  the  family-connection  must  be  radically  modified, 
and  in  some  particulars  resolutely  abandoned,  however  pleasing,  if  only 
true — in  order  to  make  the  family  history  conform  at  all  to  the  facts  which 
are  found  to  exist.  Facts  are  facts  in  genealogy  as  truly  as  anywhere  and 
everywhere  else  ;  and  they  are  as  ''stubborn"  here  in  themselves,  as  else- 
where in  the  world.  To  a  genealogist  of  the  right  spirit,  it  is  a  real  pleas- 
use,  and  so  a  favorite  habit  with  him,  to  give  full  credit,  as  long  and  as  far 
as  he  can,  to  representations  made  by  older  members  of  a  family,  respect- 
ing their  family-origin  in  all  its  details  of  accepted  ideas  and  traditions 
that  are  afloat  in  it.  But  often  will  he  find  at  the  end  of  repeated  inves- 
tigation, and  after  much  careful  sifting  of  ail  procurable   evidence,   that 


1885.]  The  Rogers  Lineage.  159 

what  was  really  but  a  mere  agreeable  fancy,  and  not  a  fact  of  history  at  all, 
had  falsely  obtained  for  long  periods  of  time  the  dignity  and  authority  of 
sober  and  sacred  truth  in  the  family.  Though  by  abundant  repetition  what 
is  in  itself  only  a  mere  imagination,  or  conceit,  or  even  prejudice,  may 
come  ere  long  to  the  state  of  being  publicly  crowned  and  glorified,  as  if 
very  truth  itself;  still,  nothing  in  any  field  of  inquiry  is  worth  acquiring, 
or  cherishing  for  a  moment  by  any  one,  except  so  far  as  it  possesses  in  its 
inmost  elements  the  solid  substance  of  actual  fact.  All  else  is  spurious, 
however  showy  or  pretentious. 

The  writer  has  always  thus  far  yielded,  but  very  reluctantly,  because  of 
the  difficulties  that  beset  such  a  supposition,  to  the  positive  declarations 
(and  those  much  more  positive  and  multiplied  in  later  years  than  at  an 
earlier  date,  say  twenty-five  years  ago)  of  some  of  the  older  members  now 
living  of  the  posterity  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Norwalk.  They  have  affirmed, 
positively,  that  Elizabeth  Pitch,  his  *vife,  was  the  daughter  of  Governor 
Thomas  Fitch,  oi  Norwalk  :  and  also  that,  the  Governor  was  himself 
descended  from  an  English  Judge  (Baron  Fitch)-  of  high  repute  ;  which 
last  statement,  or  idea,  he  believes,  from  thorough  examination,  to  be 
entirely  without  historical  support  of  any  kind.  In  the  carefully  prepared 
"  History  of  The  English  Judges/'  by  Edward  Eoss,  from  the  Xorman 
Conquest  in  1066  f^  iQA  t.  there  is  a  complete  alphabetical  list  of  all  the 
judges'  names,  through  all  those  800  years,  stating  in  iC  what  reigns  they 
flourished  and  in  what  courts  they  sat.''  And  the  name  Fitch  does  not 
once  occur  among  them,  or  the  shadow  of  it.  The  idea  is  a  delusion. 
The  writer,  therefore,  believes  the  facts  to  be  these  :  The  wife  of  Samuel 
Rogers  was  doubtless  Elizabeth  Fitch  ;  but  she  could  not  have  been  by 
any  possibility  the  daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  Fitch,  of  Norwalk,  who 
is  shown  by  undeniable  records  to  have  been  born  in  173S,  and  to  have 
married  Andrew  Rowland,  of  Fairfield,  Conn.,  and  to  have  died  there 
March  29,  1825,  aged  eighty-seven.  (See  note  in  January  number  of  the 
Record,  pp.  43-44).  She  would  have  been,  besides,  having  been  born  in 
173S,  but  ten  years  old  at  the  time  of  her  alleged  marriage  in  1748  to 
Samuel  Rogers.  She  was  probably  a  near  relative  to  the  Governor,  and  may 
have  been  as  near  as  a  niece,  and  tenderly  beloved  by  the  Governor's  family, 
and  very  intimate  with  them  in  both  private  and  public,  and  so  easily 
associated  with  them  in  thought  by  the  younger  members  of  both  lines  of 
families,  Fitch  and  Rogers,  as  if  one  of  the  Governor's  own  children, 
when  she  was  not.  No  record-,  in  either  line  of  relationship,  of  which 
the  writer  has  ever  heard,  furnish  the  least  light  upon  the  subject.  There 
are  nothing  but  floating  traditions  here,  and  of  recent  origin,  all  whose 
merit  consists  in  reiterated  positiveness  of  assertion,  without  one  simple 
fact  to  sustain  irs  supposed  value.  This  is  the  exact  truth  of  all  that  the 
writer  knows  upon  the  whole  matter;  and  the  same  unsatisfying  and  per- 
plexing obscurity  marks  the  Fitch  origines  families,  in  the  history  of  the 
Rogers  family,  as  in  all  other  branches  of  its  development.  It  has  been 
a  difficult  task  to  reach  what  points  of  new  discovery  we  have  secured, 
at  any  time,  and  against  fearful  odds,  for  the  number  and  greatness  of 
the  obstacles  in  our  way.  Future  investigators  of  a  lineage  well  deserv- 
ing thorough  exploration  will  find  their  pathway  greatly  smoothed  of 
many  and  perplexing  difficulties  as  they  move  onward  upon  it  into  the 
light. 

The  demands   of  thorough,  satisfactory,  genealogical  composition  are 


160  ThejRogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

always  largely  cyclopaedic  in  their  nature  ;  and  one,  who  finds  progress  or 
pleasure  in  meeting  them,  must  be  often  actively  at  work,  at  one  and  the 
same  time,  on  points  quite  widely  apart  from  one  another  and  possessing 
connections  and  relations  that  are  positive,  if  complicated,  and  not  always 
clearly  defined  to  the  eye.  In  December,  1884,  the  writer  addressed 
Rev.  VY.  W.  Leete,  of  Ridgefield,  Conn.,  to  please  furnish  what  facts  he 
hiight  have  at  command,  on  early  Hawley  lineage  in  Ridgefield  and 
Redding,  Conn.,  and  received  the  following  reply,  dated  April  22,  1SS5. 
"  Dear  Sir  :  I  have  endeavored  to  send  you  a  true  and  full  answer  to 
your  various  questions  in  your  letter  of  inquiry  sent  to  me  in  December  last. 
I  have  corresponded  with  two  or  three  gentlemen,  and  interviewed  others, 
and  have  only  partially  succeeded  in  my  quest,  but  send  you  the  informa- 
tion that  I  have  obtained.  The  names  and  dates  that  I  here  communi- 
cate I  procured  from  Henry  E.  Hawley,  Esq.  (140  Pearl  Street,  New 
York,  importer  of  teas,  etc.),  grandson  of  Elisha  Hawley  (No.  IV.  5),  b. 
May  9,  1759.     ^e  k-15  a  summer  home  in  Ridgefield,  Conn. 

<CA  Rrief  View  of  Early  Hawley  Genealogy. 

"  I.  Thomas  Hawley,  of  Roxbury,  Mass.,  came  to  this  country  from 
England,  and  was  killed  near  Sudbury,  Mass.,  by  Indians,  April  27,  1676. 
•:  ii.  Capt.  juslph  Hawley,  his  son,  who  lived  at  Northampton,  Mass., 
was  b.  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  Jan.  28,  1655.  His  mother  was  Dorothy  Har- 
little  (See  'Hist.  Dwight  Family,'  p.  624).  He  d.  May  19,  1711,  aged 
fifty-six.      His  wife  was  Lydia  Marshall.    ' 

11  III.  Rev.  Thomas  Hawley,  of  Ridgefield,  Conn,  (son  of  Capt. 
Joseph  Hawley  and  Lydia  Marshall),  b.  Sept.  29,  16S9;  m.,  about  1711, 
Abigail  Gould,  of  Fairfield,  Conn. 

"  IV.   Capt.  Thomas  Hawley  (son  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hawley,  of  Ridge- 
field, Conn.,  and  Abigail  Gould),  b.  Feb.  20,  1722.      His  children  were: 
"  1.  Abigail  Hawley,  b.  June  5.  1751. 
"  2.  Ebenezer  Hawley,  b.  March  21,  1753. 
"3.  Thomas  Hawley,  b.  Feb.  28,  1755. 
"  4.  Hezekiah  Hawley,  b.  in  1756. 
"  5.   Elisha  Hawley,  b.  .May  9,  1759. 
"6.   Gould  Hawley,  b.  in  1760-61. 
"  7.  Talcott  Hawley,  b.  May  17,  1762. 

"8.   Joseph    Hawley,   b.   June  15,  1764.     He   settled   near  Troy, 
N.  Y.,  or  Ballston  Springs.      He  was  living  in  1S47.      He  m., 
Dec.  5,  1 791,  Phoebe  Smith." 
The  writer  takes  positive  pleasure  in  recording  these   wayside   discov- 
eries of  genealogical  facts,  as  he  knows  that,  in  other  days,  many  an  eye 
not  thought  of  now,  will  carefully  traverse  and  curiously  scan  and  con  over 
all  that  they  can  find  preserved  of  such  records  of  the  past  with  unmixed 
delight. 

Miss  Caroline  R.  Garniss,  residing  at  Xo.  44  E.  Twenty-ninth  Street, 
New  York,  who  is  a  granddaughter  of  Dr.  David  Rogers,  Jr.,  of  Xew 
York,  writes,  in  the  following  interesting  way,  of  her  various  reminiscences, 
respecting  her  branch  of  the  Rogers  family.  She  had  not  seen,  when  she 
wrote,  any  of  the  different  articles  that  have  appeared  in  the  Record 
on  "The  Rogers  Lineage,"  nor  knew  at  all  of  their  existence.  She 
writes  thus  : 


1885.]  The  Rogers  Lineage.  1 6 1 

"New  York,  May  12,  1SS5. 
"  Dear  Sir  : 

"  I  shall  be  most  happy  to  respond  to  your  inquiries  concerning  the 
history  of  tne  Rogers  family,  as  well  as  I  can,  although  it  must  bo,  by 
necessity,  in  but  a  fragmentary  way.  I  have  no  records  in  my  possession, 
or  at  my  command  ;  and  I  have  no  knowledge  where  by  any  possible 
effort  of  mine  they  may  be  found.  My  grandfather,  Dr.  David  Rogers,  of 
this  city,  but  a  few  years  since  began  to  write  a  history  of  his  ancestry  and 
kindred,  but  he  soon  died,  and  left  the  good  work  utteily  unfinished.  His 
son,  Dr.  David  L.  Rogers,  had  charge  of  his  papers,  among  which  were 
some  very  interesting  records  of  the  Rogers  lineage.  He  also  died  soon. 
Mr.  Andrew  Boardman  was  appointed  his  executor,  and  took  charge  of 
his  papers,  intending  to  prepare  by  request  a  history  of  his  life  and  distin- 
guished career  as  a  physician.  He  was  a  lawyer  of  note,  and  kept  these 
most  valuable  papers  among  others  of  his  own,  regarding  them  as  safe  at 
all  times  from  molestation  or  injury.  But  he  soon  died,  and  his  effects 
were  sold  at  auction  ere  long,  in  order  to  settle  up  his  estate  more  easily 
and  completely;  and,  by  the  sad  'force  of  circumstances,'  disappeared  for- 
ever speedily  from  our  sight  records  and  relics  of  the  early  history  of  our 
kindred,  which  we  should  now  regard  as  of  priceless  value,  if  ree  could  but 
recc  sei  them  again  auw  our  possession.  The  loss  is  a  very  great  one,  and 
entirely  irretrievable. 

"  My  grandfather,  Dr.  David  Rogers,  Jr.  (son  of  Dr.  David  Rogers  and 
Martha  Tennent),  was  b.  at  Greenfield  Hill,  Fairfield  County,  Conn,  (a  spot 
full  of  many  and  tender  memories  and  sacred  associations  to  the  writer's 
mind  in  reference  to  ancestral  memories  in  the  ;  Dwight  Family  History'). 
He  settled  as  a  physician  at  Mamaroneck,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  was  surrounded  by  Horton  relatives  and  friends,  and  soon  established 
a  large  and  successful  medical  practice.  He  removed  ere  long  to  New 
York,  and  here  rose  speedily  to  distinction  in  his  profession.  He  m., 
about  1792,  Esther  Horton,  dau.  of  Major  Horton,  of  revolutionary  mem- 
ory, who  was  shot,  by  mistake,  by  men  of  his  own  party  in  the  Revolution. 
She  was  an  only  child,  but  her  family  connections  were  very  numerous. 

"Dr.  David  Rogers,  Jr.,  had  five  children — 1.  Gilbert  Tennent  Rogers, 
b.  in  1794,  who  d.  from  yellow  fever  in  the  summer  of  1822,  aged  twenty-eight. 
2.  Dr.  David  L.  Rogers,  b.  in  1797.  He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Valen- 
tine Mott  of  this  city,  and  became  early  distinguished  as  a  skilful  surgeon, 
and  was  appointed  Professor  of  Surgery  in  the  Medical  College  at  Geneva, 
N.  Y.  In  the  late  Union  War  (1861-5)  he  offered  his  services  to  his 
country,  and  was  appointed  Inspector-General  of  Hospitals.  He  was 
twice  married.  He  d.  in  1877  in  his  Soth  year.  3.  Dr.  James  H.  Rogers, 
the  youngest  son  of  Dr.  David  Rogers,  Jr.,  b.  in  1S00,  studied  medicine 
with  Dr.  Watts,  of  Xew  York.  He  was  remarkably  talented  and  early 
reached  the  heights  of  his  profession  in  both  practice  and  reputation. 
He  was  for  some  years  in  partnership  with  his  father,  in  this  city,  and  was 
appointed  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  in  one  of  our  Xew  York  Colleges 
(I  know  not  which  one).  In  1849  he  went  to  California,  and  was  made 
Health  Officer  in  the  Port  of  San  Francisco,  Cal.  He  m.  Cecilia,  'dau.  of 
Elisha  VV.  King,  a  prominent  lawyer  at  the  time  in  New  York  City.  She 
d.  within  two  years,  and  he  m.,  for  a  second  wife,  Louisa  Coles,  dau.  of 
Jordan  Coles,  of  Quaker  extraction  and  of  a  large  estate.  His  brother, 
Dr.  David  L.  Rogers,  who  m.  Catharine  Wright  (dau.  of  Jordan  Wright,  of 


1 62  The  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

flushing,  L.  I.,  and  also  a  wealthy  Quaker),  was  married  to  his  bride  on 
the  same  evening  and  at  the  same  house  with  him,  that  of  Elisha  YV.  King, 
Esq.,  in  this  city.  Dr.  James  H.  Rogers  d.  at  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  in  his 
fifty -second  year,  in  1851.  4.  He  and  his  sister  Deborah  were  born  twins 
at  the  same  time.  She  m.  in  after-life  Dea.  Jedediah  R.  Hawley,  of  Redding, 
Conn.,  now  living  [and  the  writer's  informant  of  so  many  of  the  facts  de- 
tailed in  the  articles  prepared  on  'The  Rogers  Lineage'  (see  p.  155  of 
the  October  No.  01  the  Record  for  1854)].  My  mother,  Caroline  Susan 
Rogers  (dau.  of  Dr.  David  Rogers  2d  and  Esther  Morton),  was  b.  in 
1796,  at  Mamaroneck,  N.  Y.,  and  m.,  in  1812,  Thomas  W.  Garniss,  a  ship- 
ping merchant  in  this  city,  born  here  in  178S,  and  of  English  parentage. 
He  d.  in  1865,  aged  seventy-seven.  She  d.  in  the  same  year,  a  fortnight 
before  him,  aged  sixty-nine. 

"My  uncles  left  no  children  surviving"  them  ;  but  these  all  died  in  early 
childhood. 

"  I  remember  that  my  grandfather,  Dr.  David  Rogers  2d,  had  three 
cousins  of  note,  residing  at  different  times  in  New  York,  and  not  far  dis- 
tant from  him  in  their  different  homes,  viz.  : 

"  1.  Moses  Rogers  :  there  is  a  tablet  to  his  memory  to  be  seen  still  in 
the  vestibule  of  Grace  Church,  in  this  city,  in  the  promotion  of  whose 
inf-er^t-s  he  was  active  and  efficient.  2.  Archibald  Gracie,  another  cousin, 
whose  mother,  or  wife,  was  a  Rogers,  and  who  had  a  great  reputation  as  a 
very  successful  business-man.  3.  Chancellor  James  Kent  was  another 
distinguished  cousin  of  my  grandfather.  He  and  grandfather  Rogers  died 
on  the  same  day.  [This  is  a  mistake,  as  neither  of  them  died  on  the  day 
named.  Exact  dates  it  is  very  difficult  to  keep  in  their  pristine  integrity, 
even  with  the  aid  of  exact  and  well  kept  records  ;  and  much  more  if  one 
undertakes  to  keep  them  afloat,  and  for  any  long  time,  on  merely  loose 
suggestions  and  vague  fancies  of  the  memory.] 

u  My  great-grandfather,  Dr.  David  Rogers  (son  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers,  of 
Norwalk),  settled  early  at  Greenfield  Hill,  Conn.  His  wife  was  Martha 
Tennent,  dau.  of  Charles  Tennent,  of  Maryland,  Eastern  Shore,  I  can 
give,  and  with  but  little  preciseness  of  statement,  a  few  leading  facts  of  his 
family  history.     He  had  twelve  children,  ten  sons  and  two  daughters. 

"  I.  Dr.  Charles  Rogers,  who  m.  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  and  settled 
there. 

"  II.  Dr.  David  Rogers  2d,  my  grandfather,  of  whom  and  his  children 
I  have  given  a  brief  account.  My  great-grandmother,  Martha  Tennent, 
was  the  great-niece  of  Rev.  William  Tennent,  so  well  known  in  the  early 
history  of  New  Jersey,  and  especially  for  his  remarkable  '  trance.'  You 
have,  doubtless,  read  the  interesting  memoirs  of  his  life.  She  was  a  lady 
remarkable  for  her  piety  and  had  a  very  cultured  mind. 

"IH.  Dr.  William  Rogers.  He  m.  (whom  I  do  not  know)  and 
settled  'in  Doylestown,  Pa. 

"  IV.  Dr.  Morris  Rogers,  who  m.  a  Miss  Willetts  of  Great  Neck,  L.  I. 

He  settled  at  first   on   Long  Island  (at   Great   Neck,  L.  I.)  and   practised 

his  profession   there,  but   ere  long  removed   to  New  York  City,  and  here 

practised  medicine  and  here  died,  leaving  two  sons,  both  surviving  him,  viz.  : 

"  1.  Dr.  Charles  Rogers,  a  physician  at  Great  Neck,  L.  I.,  now. 

"2.  Dr.  Amos  Rogers,  a  physician  at  Great  Neck,  L.  I.,  now  (1885). 

"V.  Martha  Tennent  Rogers,  m.  Dr.*Dewees,  of  Philadelphia,  cele- 
brated for  his  medical  knowledge  and  skill.     But  she  died  early. 


iS$5.]  The  Rogers  Lineage.  1 65 

"VI.  Susan  Rogers,  who  m.  Rev.  John  Austin  (brother  to  Rev.  David 
Austin,  who  was  so  long  settled,  before  and  after  the  Revolutionary  War, 
over  the  old  Presbyterian  Church  at  Elizabeth,  X.  J.).  They  lived  at 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 

**  VII.  Samuel  Rogers.  He  settled  as  a  man  of  business  in  New  York. 
He  m.  a  Miss  Kingsland,  of  Xew  York,  and  left  one  son  surviving  him." 

Of  Dr.  Charles  Rogers'  family  history  (No.  I.  above  mentioned)  Miss 
Garniss  can  say  additionally  thus  much,  that  he  had  four  children  : 

1.  Rev.    Charles   Rogers,   a   Presbyterian  clergyman,  who  m.  a 

lady  in  Xew  Haven,  Conn. 

2.  William  Rogers,  a  lawyer,  believed  to  be   still  living,  and  un- 

married. 

3.  David  Rogers,  who  m.  a  lady  in  Xew  Haven. 

4.  A  daughter,  the  only  one,  who  m.  in  South  Carolina. 

Such  is  the  fragmentary  and  broken,  but  yet  interesting  and  valuable 
account,  that  Miss  Garniss  kindly  adds  to  our  previous  knowledge  of  her 
maternal  parent's  worthy  ancestry  and  relatives.  Would  it  not  seem  to 
be  both  a  pity  and  a  shame  to  let  the  -memory  of  such  noble  kindred  lie, 
as  if  by  general  consent,  forsaken  and  forgotten  in  their  day  and  genera- 
tion, and  ever  afterward,  therefore,  also,  among  the  worthless  things  of 
e^rth.  rfeservtn?  only  cuch  a  fate  ? 

She  adds,  mournfully,  to  her  brief  record,  from  memory,  of  the  worthy 
dead  :  "  My  grandfather's  descendants  have  ail  passed  away  from  earth ; 
and  I  know  of  no  one  anywhere  to  whom  I  can  look  for  any  desired  in- 
formation that  I  would  fain  obtain.  There  were  once  several  Bibles  in  the 
family  full  of  precious  records  of  names  and  dates  respecting  Rogers  and 
Tennent  connections  ;  but  a;as  !  now  these  much-valued  stores  of  fam- 
ily-treasures have  at  last  been  all  scattered  and  lost,  so  that  we  have  no 
chance  of  access  to  them  if  anywhere  still  existing,  or  knowledge  of  their 
existence.  ii  I  am,  respectfully,  vours,  etc. 

"Caroline  R.  Garniss." 

She  had  previously  written  that  she  had  always  heard  in  the  family, 
that  President  John  Rogers  (5th  President  of  Harvard  College,  16.S2-S4, 
who  died  July  2,  16S4,  while  holding  this  high  office),  was  one  of  the  line  of 
her  ancestors ;  and  that  he  himself  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Rev.  John 
Rogers,  the  martyr. 

Here  are  surely  facts  enough,  of  great  importance  in  themselves  and 
of  sufficient  variety  for  their  number  and  scope  of  application,  to  make  it 
seem,  one  would  think,  quite  worth  the  while  for  some  one  personally  in- 
terested in  the  honor  of  the  Rogers  name,  to  arise  and  zealously  address 
himself  to  the  task  (if  such  fie  deems  it)  of  clearing  the  family  record  for- 
ever of  all  the  many  and  great  obscurations  and  errors  with  which  it  has 
been  hitherto  so  blurred  ;  but  let  him  not  delay  so  desirable  an  undertaking, 
until  all  are  dead  and  gone  who  can  deal  in  real,  living  facts,  or  at  least,  m 
facts  of  actual  truth  and  value  that  were  once,  and  that  not  long  since, 
alive  throughout  with  real  vitality  and  force. 

The  descendants  of  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  are  seen  to  have  been — those  of 
the  name  Rogers  especially — to  a  remarkable  degree  physicians,  and 
large  numbers  of  them  of  distinction  in  their  profession.  While  very  use- 
ful in  their  lives,  they  have  generally  passed  away  soon  from  human  re- 
membrance when  called  away  by  death  forever  out  of  human  sight.  It  is 
a  striking  proof,  if  casual,  how  easily  those  of  the  Rogers  kindred,  like  so 


164  The  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

many  others,  have  been  able,  in  the  past,  to  lose  all  natural  sense  of  even 
close  mutual  relationship,  while  yet  living  for  years  near  by  each  other, 
and  mingling  together  in  familiar  social  intercourse,  that  one  of  the  writer's 
most  interested  and  earnest  helpers  in  the  work  of  disentangling  and 
developing  the  story  here  furnished  of  the  Rogers  lineage,  should  (on 
hearing  from  him  in  advance  of  the  much  valued  details  here  furnished  of 
Miss  Garniss'  testimony,  concerning  her  now  nearly  perished  branch  of  the 
family,  perished  not  only  from  earth,  but  even  also  from  the  remembrance 
of  surviving  generations)  say  to  him  in  reply  :  "  The  lady  of  whom  you 
speak,  I  have  long  known  well  and  esteemed  highly  as  a  personal  friend ; 
but  I  did  not  know,  until  you  told  me  so,  nor  ever  dreamed,  that  she  had 
any  Rogers  blood  in  her  veins,  and  in  fact  was  one  of  my  near  Rogers  re- 
latives." 

Some  instances  of  correction  of  former  items  of  misinformation  given  to 
the  writer,  or  of  misconception  by  the  type-setter,  should  here  be  improved. 

1.  In  the  October  number  of  1.SS4,  p.  153,  Dr.  David  Rogers  is  re- 
corded to  have  been  born,  according  to  dates  given  by  Dea.  Jedediah  R. 
Hawley,  of  Redding.  Conn.,  on  August  21,  174S,  twin  with  his  sister  Eliza- 
beth (or  "Betsey,"  as  she  was  commonly  called).  They  were  both  born  at 
Norwich,  Conn.,  and  they  each  died  there  it  is  said  ;  he,  as  stated  by 
James  JCiesf.  Pcri.  of  Fifrrklll  OTfJtme  25,  t8?o  :  and  if  the  dates  given 
are  correct,  they  make  it  evident  that  he  died  aged  eighty-one.  She 
died  unmarried,  May  26,  1S36,  it  is  said;  and  if  this  be  so,  she  was  aged 
eighty-eight. 

2.  Instead  of  saying  at  top  of  page  152  of  October  number  of  18S4, 
that  Dr.  Uriah  Rogers  and  Hannah  Lockwood  had  nine  children  only,  the 
statement  would  be  more  completely  true,  if  made  that  "they  had,  it  would 
seem,  a  dozen  or  more  children,"  and  in  the  series  of  children  named  there 
should  be  placed  in  the  series  given,  this  record,  also,  as 

No.  II.  x.  Major  Hezekiah  Rogers,  b.  in  1753,  d.  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  Sept.  4,  1810. 

3.  The  full  name  of  the  wife  of  James  Kent,  Esq.,  of  Fishkill-on-the- 
Hudson,  should  be  this  :  Sarah  Irving  Clark  (dau.  of  Edwin  Clark  and 
Sarah  Saunders  Irving). 

Also,  the  name  Irving  should  be  absent  from  the  name  of  his  eldest 
son,  in  the  January  number  of  the  Record. 

4.  The  year  of  the  marriage  of  Helen  Riggs  (p.  12,  January  number  of 
the  Record),  wife  of  Judge  William  Kent,  is  wrongly  printed  as  182 1, 
and  should  be  1S26. 

5.  The  middle  name,  Pratt,  as  now  of  Rev.  Dr.  Ebenezer  Pratt  Rogers, 
as  it  appears  on  p.  22  of  January  number  of  the  Record,  should  be 
Piatt.  His  ancestors  were  of  the  same  Piatt  family  as  is  described  in  note 
on  page  15  of  the  same  number  of  the  Record.  His  name  the  writer 
holds  always  in  affectionate  remembrance  as  that  of  a  much  loved  per- 
sonal friend. 

The  pleasure  of  cherishing  appreciation  and  sympathy  for  the  brave 
and  true  of' other  days,  and  especially  if  of  our  national  stock  and  history, 
is  exceedingly  self-rewarding;  and  in  the  temple  of  one's  own  happy  con- 
sciousness there  is  a  sense  of  rapture  in  the  full  and  strong  exercise  of 
magnanimous  ideas  and  in  thorough  intentions  of  warm  good-will  to  others, 
and  especially  in  forms  of  action  difficult  to  be  rendered,  that  often  suffices 
to  give  a  peculiar  glow  and  glory  to  one's  earthly  experience.^ 


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1885.]  The  Rogers  Lineage.  l6r 

Those  who  are  specially  interested  in  securing  for  themselves  and 
others  a  right  and  at  all  complete  view  of  early  Rogers  genealogy  in  this 
country,  will  be  able  to  approach  at  least  such  a  result  with  measurable 
clearness  and  satisfaction  by  the  careful  study  of  the  facts  here  brought  to 
light  for  the  first  time,  and  of  the  errors  herein  corrected  in  reference  to 
the  branches  of  the  family  which  are  described,  both  more  broadly  and 
carefully  than  ever  before,  in  print,  in  the  different  papers  successively 
presented  in  the  Record  upon  "The  Rogers  Lineage/'  The  first  four 
generations  of  the  family,  an  account  of  whom  is  involved,  more  or  less,  in 
these  papers,  may  be  profitably  grouped  into  one  connected  view  for  the 
better  comprehension  of  the  American  side  of  the  Rogers  family  history, 
as  follows.  It  has  been  very  recently  prepared  by  his  request,  and  most 
kindly  for  the  writer,  by  Warren  R.  Dix,  Esq.,  160  Broadway.  Under  date 
of  July  28,  1SS5,  he  writes: 

"  James  Rogers,  the  settler,  and  the  ever-to-be-honored  founder  of  the 
different  branches  of  the  family,  most  known,  in  the  past,  in  New  York  City 
and  its  vicinity  (on  Long  Island,  and  on  its  shores  on  either  side,  and  in 
Connecticut  and  elsewhere.,  by  migration'or  descent,  from  such  beginnings, 
and  of  the  same  original  parentage),  came  to  America  in  the  ship  Increase  in 
1635,  at  the  age  of  twenty.  He  married  here  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Rowland,  of  Stratford,  Conn.,  where  he  dwelt  tor  some  years,  and  afterward 
at  Milford,  Conn.,  under  the  ministry  of  the  Rev.  Peter  Prudden  (see  '  His- 
tory of  Strong  Family,'  p.  731).  At  the  end  he  resided  at  New  London, 
Conn.,  living  here  some  twenty  years,  and  building  for  himself  a  large 
stone-house,  and  in  the  neighborhood  of  Gov.  Winthrop,  a  personal  friend. 
He  possessed  large  landed  property  in  the  vicinity  and  many  house-lots  in 
town.  He  leased  also  the  town  mill  and,  being  a  baker,  furnished  biscuit 
on  a  large  scale  for  seamen  and  colonial  troops  (1660-16S0);  and  had  a 
greater  interest  than  any  one  else  in  the  trade  of  the  port.  He  was,  in 
short,  a  very  active  business  man,  full  of  energy  and  industry  in  many  ways 
and  forms.  He  had  seven  children,  five  of  whom  were  sons.  He  d.  in 
1 68 7,  aged  seventy-seven. 

CHILDREN  : 

I.  3.  Samuel  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  12,  1640;  m.  Mary  Stanton.     He 

d.  in  1713. 

II.  4.  Joseph  Rogers,  b.  May  1,  1646.     He  m.  wife  Sarah.     He 

d.  in  1697,  aged  fifty-one. 

III.  5.  John  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  1,  164S  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Griswold,  of 
Lyme,  Conn.     He  d.  in  1721,  aged  seventy-three. 

IV.  6.  Bathshebah  Rogers,  b.  Dec.  30,   1650.     She  m.  Richard 
Smith,  and,  for  second  husband,  Samuel  Fox. 

V.  7.  James  Rogers,  Jr.,   b.  Feb.   15,   1652;  m.,  Nov.  5,   1674, 

Mary,  dau.  of  Jeffrey  Jordan,  in  Ireland. 

VI.  8.  Jonathan  Rogers,  b.  Dec,  1655  ;  m.  Naomi  Burdick.    He 
d.  in  1697,  aged  forty-two. 

VII.  9.  Elizabeth  Rogers,  b.  April  15,  165S  ;  m.  Samuel  Beebe, 
of  Plum  Island. 

second  generation. 

V.  7.  James  Rogers  2d  (son  of  James  Rogers  and  Elizabeth  Rowland), 
b.  February  15,  1652.     Pie  was  the  owner  of  a  vessel,  of  which  he  was  him- 


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1 66  The  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

self  captain,  and  brought  over  from  the  North  of  Ireland  at  one  time  a 
company  of  Redemptioners,  and  among  them  a  family  by  the  name  of 
Jordan,  one  of  whom  (Mary,  dau.  of  Jeffrey  Jordan)  he  ere  long  married 
(about  1673),  often  saying,  sportively,  that  u  that  was  the  richest  cargo 
which  he  had  ever  shipped,  and  that  he  had  made  out  of  it  the  best  bargain 
for  himself  that  he  had  ever  made  in  his  life."  He  d.  in  1 7  j  3.  They  had 
eight  children  : 

THIRD    GENERATION. 

I.  10.  James  Rogers  3d,  b.  in  1675  ;  m.  about  1705  wife  Elizabeth. 

He  d.  at  Xorwalk,  Conn.,  July   16,    1733. 

II.  11.   Mary  Rogers,  b.  1676-7  ;  m.  a  Mr.  Prentiss. 

III.  12.   Elizabeth  Rogers,  b.  in  16S0  ;  d.  early. 

IV.  13.   Sarah  Rogers.,  b.  in  1682  ;  m.  first  a  Mr.   Hays,  and  for 
second  husband,  Elder  Stephen  Gorton. 

V.  14.   Samuel  Rogers,  b.  in  16S5  ;  d.  early. 

VI.  15.  Jonathan  Rogers,  b.  in  16S7. 

VII.  16.  Richard  Rogers,  b.   in   16S9;  m.,  in   1711,   Mary  Ray- 
mond. 

VIII.  17.  William  Rogers,  b.  in  1693.     He  m.,  in  17 13,  Elizabeth 

I.  ic.  James  Rogers  3d  (son  of  James  Rogers  2d  and  Mary  Jordan), 
b.  in  1675,  m.,  about  1700,  wife  Elizabeth,  and  had  three  children,  and 
probably  others  (possibly  several,  and  even  many,  whose  names,  with  dates, 
etc.,  are  now  lost).     He  d.  at  Xorwalk,  Conn.,  July  16,  1733. 

children. 

I.   18.  James  Rogers   4th,  b.    about    1701-2;  m.,   about   1721-2, 
Mary  Hanis.     (See  lists  of  their  children  in  note  on  p.  151  of 
October  No.  of  the  Record,  as  nine  in  all,  with  dates  of  their 
births,  as  all  born  in  New  London,  Conn.     Their  names  were, 
as    there    recorded,    Lemuel,    Peter,    Ichabod,    Mary,  James, 
Edmund,  Uriah,  Elizabeth,  Jeremiah. 
II/19.   Dr.  Uriah  Rogers,  b.  in  1710.      His  history,  and   that  of 
his  descendants,  some  of  them  among  the  most  distinguished  of 
the  land  and  ,:  the  excellent  of  the  earth,"  have  been  described 
in  these  pages  with  an  honest  and   earnest  attempt  to   rescue 
them  and  their  worth  from  undeserved  oblivion. 
III.   20.  Samuel  Rogers,  b.  in  171 2. 
'  Here   vanishes,  like   a  thin  and  worthless   vapor,    the   conceit   fondly 
cherished  by  some  few  of  the  older  members  of  the  family,  about  his  having 
been  probably  born  in  Nova  Scotia,  or  perhaps  England  rather,  and  repre- 
senting a  recent  English  family  as  such,  and  ministerial,  and  that  Episcopal. 
Contrarily,  the  writer  feels  sure  that  the  Rogers  family,  as  represented  in 
the  family  of  Samuel  Rogers,    of  Xorwalk,  Conn.,  was  of  early  Puritan 
origin,  like  so  many  of  the  best  families  of  this  country,  and  deserves  his- 
torically the  full  credit  of  the  earnest  convictions  and  stalwart  faith  of  the 
original  founders  of  the  family,  as  such,  in  America.      He  himself  desires 
here  and  now  to  confess,  that  (out  of  respectful  and  even  tender  deference 
to  what  he  saw  were  strong  convictions  on  the  part  of  some  among  Samuel 
Rogers'  descendants  in  modern  times,  and  which  he  was  not  sure   at  the 
time  were  anything  more  and  better,  after  all,  than  mere  pleasant  prejudices 


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and  desires  falsely  dignified,  though  insensibly  to  themselves,  as  hopes  and 
facts)  he  accepted  the  version  of  the  early  Rogers'  history  as  it  lay  in  their 
thoughts,  as  if  it  might  be  and  even  must  be  true.  But  on  undertaking  to 
verify  it  as  true,  the  evidence  furnished  must  needs  be  eked  out  always 
with  many  guesses  and  much  doubt  and  uncertainty. 

The  fabulous  conceit,  therefore,  to  which  such  deferential  consideration 
was  paid  for  a  ti  ne,  and  from  friendly  motives,  as  shown  on  "  p.  155  of  the 
October  No.  of  the  Record,"  is  not  now  regarded  "by  the  writer  any 
longer  with  favor,  or  even  with  respectful  toleration.,  as  a  supposed  fact. 
The  actual  truth  of  simple,  honest  reality  is  all  that  is  of  any  value  in 
history  or  genealogy  ;  and  the  tests  of  genuineness  are  as  sure  in  their  ap- 
plication in  this  field  of  inquiry  as  in  any  other.  "All  is  not  gold  that 
glitters,"  here,  as  elsewhere.  With  the  idea  of  the  recent  English  and 
Episcopal  origin  of  the  Samuel  Rogers  branch  of  the  family  goes  to  "  the 
limbo  of  vanity,"  as  being  not  proved  to  be  true,  as  has  been  elsewhere 
stated,  the  idea  of  the  special  Fitch  ancestry  of  the  feminine  origin  of  this 
particular  family.  The  Rogers  name  has  been  both  in  the  history  of  letters 
and  of  the  Christian  Church  a  shining  one  for  centuries  in  both  England 
and  America,  and  needs  at  no  time  any  false  aids,  or  those  which  are 
questionable  in  their  foundations  of  honest  fact,  to   support  iiT  any  heart 

L  licit  iuUa  ii-uicuusiicsa    Hiikj.     uuui,   ciuici    iLa  ui^im)'  01     ItS    leiiOWn.        It  IS 

pleasant,  surely,  to  one  of  true  and  worthy  ideas  to  bring  always  whatever 
honor  he  may  deservedly  obtain  among  others  as  a  welcome  tribute  of 
affection  to  the  shrine  of  family  feeling,  and  to  cleave  genially,  in  spirit,  to 
his  relatives  in  name  or  in  blood  so  far  as  they  prove  themselves  to  be 
worthy  of  the  family  trust  of  recognized  respectability,  committed  to  them, 
without  any  questions  about  the  relative  amount  of  wealth  possessed  by 
any  of  them,  or  of  the  several  degrees  of  honor  or  fame  that  they  may 
separately  enjoy.  "Act  well  your  part,  there  all  the  honor  lies."  This 
is  the  first  lesson  of  all  true  genealogical  science,  as  of  all  Christian  ethics. 
And  happily  this  sentiment  accords  with  prevailing  American  feeling. 

In  these  papers  a  more  or  less  full  account  may  be  found  of  most  of 
the  descendants  of  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Norwalk,  extending  into  the  fifth, 
sixth,  and  sometimes  the  seventh  generations  of  the  descendants  of  James 
Rogers,  the  settler,  in  1635,  in  Stratford,  Milford,  and  New  London, 
Conn.  ;  and,  as  the  writer  is  able  to  do  so,  to  some  desirable  extent,  he 
adds,  with  pleasure  to  himself  although  not  necessary  to  the  completion  of 
his  original  plan,  for  treating  this  part  of  his  subject,  some  further, 
correlated  items  obtained  from  Mr.  W.  R.  Dix — serving  to  extend  the  view- 
here  presented  of  the  Rogers  lineage  in  other  lines  of  family-development, 
in  a  parallel  way,  and  to  like  distances  of  family — out-reach  and  out-look, 
to  those  attained  in  the  account  of  the  descendants  of-  Samuel  Rogers 
and  Elizabeth  Fitch  (not  the  Governor's  daughter). 

FIFTH    GENERATION. 

VIII.  17.  Children  of  William  Rogers,  b.  in  1693  (son  of  James 
Rogers  3d  and  Elizabeth  Harris,  his  wife)  were  : 

I.  21.  Jordan  Rogers,  b.  in  1715  ;  d.  early. 

II.  22.  Jeremiah  Rogers,  b.  in  171 7. 

III.  2i%   Peter  Rogers,  b.  in  1719  ;  m.  Lucy  Harris. 

IAr.  24.  Elizabeth  Rogers,  b.  in  1721  ;  her  history  is  unknown. 
V.   25.  William  Rogers,  Jr.,  b.  in  1723. 


1 68  The  Rogers  Lineage.       "  [Oct., 

VI.  26.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  b.  in  1725  ;  in.  Theoda  Miner. 

VII.  27.   Lydia  Rogers,  b.  in  1730  ;  111.  John  Dodge. 

VIII.  2S.   Ebenezer   Rogers,    b.   in   1733;    m.    Oct.    18,    1754, 
widow  Naomi  Beebe,  nee  Fox. 

SIXTH    GENERATION. 

Children  of  Ebenezer  and  Naomi  Rogers  : 

I.  29.   Amos  Rogers,  b.  Nov.  22,  1755. 

II.  30.  Ebenezer  Rogers,  Jr.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1758. 

III.  $i.   Lucretia  Rogers,  b.  June  11,  1760. 

IV.  32.  Daniel  Rogers,   b.   July  22,    1768;   m.  Jan'y  28,  1790, 
Rebecca  Crocker.     They  had  three  children  : 

1.  Rebecca  Rogers,  b.  Xov.  4,  1790. 

2.  Daniel  Rogers,  Jr.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1795.     He   m.,  Dec.   26th, 

1819,  Sally  Harris,  and  had  six  children  :  (1)  Retsey 
Rogers,  b.    Sept.    29,    182 1,    and    d.,   aged  ten,   in   1831. 

(2)  Marvin  Rogers,   b.   Oct.  4,  1S25  ;  d.  aged  thirty-one. 

(3)  Uriah  F,  Rogers,  b.  July  14,  182S.  (4)  Ellen  P. 
Rogers,  b.  Nov.  4,  1830.  (5)  Martin  K.  Rogers,  b. 
March  17,  1833.     (6)  Sarah  E.  Rogers^b.  May  28,  1S36. 

3.  Lyman   Rogers   /son    of  Daniel  Rogers,    of  the   previous 

generation,  the  sixth,  and  of  his  wife  Rebecca  Crocker, 
and  brother  of  Daniel  Rogers,  Jr.,  and  Rebecca  Rogers), 
b.  March  11,  1798. 

Amos  Rogers,  of  the  sixth  generation  above  given,  b.  Xov.  22,  1755 
(son  of  Ebenezer  Rogers  and  Xaomi  Fox,  or  widow  Beebe),  had  a  son 
named  Moses  Rogers,  b.  1780,  who  was  captain  of  one  of  the  first  steam- 
boats that  ran  up  and  down  on  the  North  River  ;  and  he  was  afterward 
captain  of  the  first  steamship  (Savannah)  that  went  to  I^urope.  He  went 
to  Liverpool  in  twenty- two  days  (fourteen  days  by  steam  and  eight 
more  by  sail)  and  thence  on  to  Copenhagen,  and  to  Stockholm  and  to 
St.  Petersburg.  The  return  passage  homeward  he  made  in  twenty-five 
days.  Fie  m.  Adelia  Smith  and  had  two  sons,  one  of  whom  was  George 
Washington  Rogers,  who  was  chief  engineer  on  a  steamboat  that  was  after- 
ward lost. 

Mention  is  made,  in  "The  Flyde  Genealogy,"  by  Chancellor  Walworth, 
of  Captain  James  Rogers  (No.  F  iS,  in  the  fourth  generation)  and  of  his 
wife,  Mary  Harris  ;  and  the  history  of  his  descendants,  through  his  eldest 
son  Lemuel,  is  traced.  The  dates  here  furnished  by  W.  R.  Dix,  Esq., 
were  obtained  chiefly  from  manuscript  notes  left  in  the  family  by  Miss 
Caulkins,  of  Xew  London,  and  from  records  gathered  by  Mr.  Daniel 
Rogers,  of  New  London,  Conn.,  and  communicated  in  a  letter  to  Mr.  T. 
D.  Rogers,  residing  now  or  recently  at  New  Fairfield,  Conn.  The  letter 
of  Daniel  Rogers  to  him  was  written,  as  its  date  shows,  Sept.  27,  1S60, 
about  twenty-five  years  ago.  The  facts  stated  and  names  and  dates  given 
agree  one  with  the  other  in  the  several  references  made  and  sources  of 
information  quoted  ;  and  are  believed  to  be  in  every  instance  correct. 

Who  will  have  the  disposition  or  the  ability  to  vindicate,  or  enlarge 
and  improve  the  family  record  in  future  years,  if  not  Warren  R.  Dix,  Esq., 
to  whose  interest  and  zeal,  in  behalf  o(  so  honorable  and  sacred  a  trust, 
the  writer  begs  leave,  in  relinquishing  all  further  concern  for  it,  for  himself, 
on  account  of  somewhat  impaired  health,  to  commend  it  with  hearty  good 


• 


i8S5-]  TJu  Rogers  Lineage.  l5g 

will,  as  worthy  of  his  most  appreciative  enthusiasm  and  care,  while  yet  in 
the  fresh  vigor  of  his  early  manhood. 

The  place  of  President  John  Rogers,  of  Harvard  College,  its  fifth  Pres- 
ident (1682-  34  .  in  the  Rogers  lineage,  it  is  easy  to  find  ;  and  he  deserves, 
surely,  honorable  menu  r.  y  all  connected  with  the  family,  or  interested 
in  its  history,  for  his  superior  style  of  self-culture,  and  his  active  useful  life, 
or  for  his  conspicuous  position,  both  as  a  scholar  himself  and  as  an  earnest 
educator  of  others  for  life's  great  work.  His  history  for  three  generations, 
including  his  own,  is  outlined,  at  least,  with  tolerable  clearness  in  "John- 
son's Cyclopaedia/'  p.  1682.  It  was  quite  a  common  habit  among  his  de- 
scendants, as  among  those  of  the  name  of  Rogers  generally  throughout 
the  land,  to  take  it  for  granted,  but  a  few  years  ago,  that  they  had  a  : 

lineal  descent  from  John  Rogers,  the  martyr,  who  was  burned  at  the  stake 
at  Smith  field.  England.  February  4,  1555  (but  little  more  than  three  centuries 
ago)  for  the  expression  01  opinions  such  as  we  all  hold  now  fearlessly  and 
joyfully  in  this  country.  Such  a  lineage  would  be  grandly  honorable  to 
any  one  who  could  justly  claim  it  for  himself  and  his  children,  in  our  day. 
But  the  idea,  however  pleasing  to  "any  one  it  might  be,  has  no  real  evi- 
dence in  its  favor,  so  far  as  the  writer  knows.  Genealogical  fallacies  of  such 
a  sort  easily  take  wing  in  cur  American  atmosphere  of  thoaghTand  feeling, 
....J!  kvhen  buce  set  lu  Luollcn,  b)  /.halevcj  accident,  often  succeed  in  float- 
ing, as  if  instinct  with  an  in  lej  en  lent  life  of  their  own,  to  great  distances  in 
space  and  for  long  periods  of  time.  There  are  no  facilities  in  this  country, 
so  far  as  the  writer  knows,  for  tracing  the  lineage  of  President  Rogers 
back  of  his  grandfather's  day.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  Rev.  John 
Rogers — J.  He  was  b.  about  1565  (place  where,  or  of  what  parentage  not 
specified).  He  was  an  earnest  Puritan  by  conviction,  and  bore  the  exact 
name,  if  not  also  the  blood  of  the  noble  martyr.  He  was  vicar  of  Hem- 
mingham,  England,  in  1592,  minister  of  Haverhill,  England,  in  1603.  and  af- 
terward of  Dedham,  England,  where  he  d.  in  1650.  He  was  author  of  several 
volumes,  that  were  highly  valued  by  English  Nonconformists.  For  some  ac- 
account  of  Rev.  John  Rogers,  of  Dedham,  England,  see  "  History  of  Dwight 
Family,"  p.  92,  and  especially  for  some  idea  of  the  indebtedness  of  the  de- 
scendants of  John  Dwight,  of  Dedham,  one  and  all.  to  the  remotest  time,  to 
influences  exerted  for  good,  upon  his  early  character  and  life  by  the  superior 
preaching  and  character  of  Rev.  John  Rogers,  of  Dedham,  England.  II.  His 
son,  Rev.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  b.  at  Haverhill,  England,  in  1598.  was  edu- 
cated at  Cambridge.  England,  preached  in  Essex  and  Suffolk  Counties, 
England,  and  fled  from  ;  ersecution  there  to  Xew  England  in  1656  (arriv- 
ing here  November  16th).  He  was  settled  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  February 
20,  1639  as  a  Congregational  clergyman,  and  d.  there  July  3,  1655.  The 
historian  Hubbard  in.  his  daughter.  III.  His  son.  President  John  Rogers, 
b.  in  Coggeshall,  England,  January,  1631,  came  in  his  early  youth  to 
Massachusetts  (1636),  graduated  at  Harvard  College,  in  1649,  studied 
theology  and  aided  his  father,  as  pastor  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  afterward 
became  a  physician.  He  was  made  President  of  Harvard  College  from  April 
10,  16S2  to  July  2,  1684,  when  he  died,  aged  fifty-three,  while  holding  his 
high  office.  The  writer  solicited  further  information  from  the  librarian  of 
Harvard  College,  but  could- get  none.  In  the  manuscript-account,  kindly 
prepared,  at  his  request,  by  Warren  R.  Dix,  Esq.,  of  New  York  City,  of 
the  Rogers  ancestry  as  furnished  especially  from  any  and  all  reliable 
sources,  among  which,  of  chief  importance,  are  extensive  and  accurate  notes, 


I  jo  The  Rogers  Lineage.  [Oct., 

prepared  by  Miss  Caulkins,  the  historian  of  New  London,  Conn.,  for  the 
family  and  left  in  their  care,  and  those  prepared  twenty-five  years  ago  by 
Mr.  Daniel  Rogers,  of  New  London,  Conn.,  and  sent  Mr.  T.  I).  Rogers,  of 
New  Fairfield,  Conn.,  now  living  there  (as  is  believed).  These  testimo- 
nies, from  such  high  family  sources,  and  of  old  and  long  standing,  as  such, 
Mr.  Dix  has  carefully  collated,  and  both  justified  and  corroborated  by 
further  records  obtained  and  carefully  compared  with  them.  All  are  found 
to  agree,  when  thoroughly  studied,  on  a  common  basis  of  mutual  corre- 
spondence with  each  other,  and  of  unification  in  one  common  system  only 
of  harmonious  self-explained  consistency  with  one  another,  and  with  all 
known  facts  of  the  family  history.  By  such  helps  from  Mr.  Dix's  papers, 
thus  obtained  and  collated  together,  it  is  possible  to  furnish  still  two  gen- 
erations more,  if  not  three,  of  the  family  history  of  President  Roger?,  of 
Harvard.  Xo.  IV.,  Rev.  John  Rogers,  Jr.  (son  of  President  John  Rogers, 
of  Harvard  College),  was  b.  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  December  28,  1666,  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  in  16S1,  became  pastor  of  the  first  church  at  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  and  d.  there  July  2,  1745,  aged  seventy-eight.  V.  His  son,  Rev. 
Daniel  Rogers,  b.  at  Ipswich,  December  9,  1706,  graduated  at  Harvard  in 
1725,  was  ordained  at  York.  July  13,  1742.  He  was  tutor  at  Harvard  for 
a  lon^  time  (1732-41).  He  officiated  at  the  funeral  of  Rev.  George  Whit- 
field, of  England,  who  d.  in  this  country,  on  Sunday,  September  $o,  1770, 
at  Exeter.  Mass.,  aged  fifty-five,  after  having  crossed  the  Atlantic  seven 
times,  to  do  what  he  could  for  the  benefit  of  this  their  new  country,  in  every 
way  possible,  which  was  then  rapidly  showing  many  signs  of  its  early  on- 
coming greatness  of  growth  in  population  and  power,  as  the  home  alike  of 
the  free  and  the  brave. 

Daniel  Rogers,  Esq.,  to  whom  with  Miss  Caulkins  the  family  are  so 
much  indebted  for  the  preservation  of  their  precious  records  of  the  past 
(and  most  of  ail  especially  to  her),  classes  Rev.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  of  Ips- 
wich, Mass.,  as  a  brother  with  Jamas  Rogers,  the  settler  of  New  London, 
who  m.  Elizabeth  (dau.  oi  Samuel  Rowland,  of  Stratford,  Conn.),  and  who 
were  the  parents  oi  all  the  many  Rogerses,  for  the  most  part,  that  have 
spread,  everywhere  from  their  home,  as  a  centre,  over  all  the  land,  and  to 
be  such  a  blessing  to  it  in  so  many  ways  of  usefulness  and  of  true  excel- 
lence and  honor  in  themselves. 

If  we  call  Rev.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  and  James,  of  New 
London,  brothers,  that  view  of  the  case  presents  to  us  both,  as  sons  of 
Rev.  John  Rogers,  oi  Dedham,  America.  If  so,  they  and  the  Dwights 
started  from  the  same  English  home  in  Dedham,  England,  and  founded 
together  a  home  of  like  name  on  these  wild  shores,  as  they  then  were  ; 
and  each  home  was  pervaded  with  a  like  combination  of  both  earnest,  re- 
ligious, and  educational  ideas  and  thoroughly  advanced  ideas. 

Was  it  a  powerful,  if  blind,  sense  of  a  common  interest,  as  some  would 
think,  perchance,  in  similar  theological  and  philosophical  ideas  and  in  like 
historic  influences  that  sufficed  to  animate  and  sustain  the  writer's  en- 
thusiasm in  developing  the  Rogers"  family  history  to  the  full  when  scarcely 
any  one  belonging  to  the  family  seemed  to  be  at  all  alive  to  its  real  interest 
and  value  (always  excepting  W.  R.  Dix,  Esq.,  still  in  the  early  days  of  his 
opening  manhood)  ?  And  was  it  under  the  secret  spell  of  similar  ancestral 
movings  of  heart  toward  one  another,  as  if  of  one  common  kin  when  we 
were  not,  and  as  if  having  an  united  share  in  the  same  fates  and  fortunes, 
the  Rocerses  and  the  Dwights,  both  chose  a  centurv  zzo  the  same  home 


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for  themselves  at  Greenfield  Hill  ;  and  the  doctors  of  the  one  family  went 
to  school  to  the  noted  doctor  of  the  other  family,  "  the  coming  man"  of 
that  day,  full  of  the  same  ideas  which  had  prevailed  in  early  days  in  the 
two  Dedhams,  on  each  side  of  the  Atlantic  ?  H  the  Rogerses  are  pleased  to 
have  had  their  family  history  brought  plainly  into  view  by  the  writer  in 
what  lie  considers  a  most  honorable  course  of  historic  facts  on  their  part,  he 
is  glad.  If  not  (for  they  have  not  broken  silence  in  his  ear ;  he  does  not 
know),  he  cannot  help  it.  He  is  sure  that  it  was preorda'uicd,  and  for  ages 
gone,  that  the  real  worthiness  of  rhe  Rogers'  intellectual  and  moral  excel- 
lence should  be  made  known  to  this  generation  of  men  by  some  one  who 
would  care  kindly  for  their  good  name  and  fame,  and  do  what  he  could  to 
hold  them  all,  pledged  by  the  bright  past  of  ancestral  ideas  and  aims  and 
endeavors,  to  lose  nothing  that  they  had  already  gained,  as  a  family  of 
worth  in  the  lon^  ages  before  them,  in  their  future. 


RECORDS    OF    THE    SOCIETY    OF    FRIEXDS    OF    WEST- 
BURY,   L.    I. 


Communicated  by  Ben-jamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq. 


The  record  books  of  the  Westbury,  L.  I.,  Monthly  Meeting  have  been 
systematically  kept  and  carefully  preserved  for  over  two  hundred  years. 
They  comprise  :  a  register  of  the  births,  marriages,  and  deaths  of  the 
members  :  the  minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  business  meetings;  a  list 
of  the  sufferings  of  the  Friends  belon^insr  to  the  meeting  in  the  mainte- 
nance  of  their  religious  testimonies  ;  a  transcript  of  the  written  acknowl- 
edgments of  such  as  had  transgressed  the  rules  of  the  Society  ;  and  various 
other  minor  records. 

births  :  * 

The  age  of  William  Willis  and  his  wife  Mary  "Willis. 

William  Willis  was  born  in  England  the  sixteenth  day  of  tenth  month 
1663. 

Mary  Titus  the  wife  of  William  Willis  was  born  in  the  sixth  month 
1665. 

William  Willis  Junior  was  born  the  14th  day  of  fourth  month  16S8. 

Hannah  Powel  ye  wife  of  William  Willis  was  born  the  28th  day  of  ye 
5th  mo  1 69 1. 

Henry  Willis  was  born  the  19th  day  of  6th  mo  1690. 

John  Willis  was  born  the  15th  day  of  2d  mo  1693. 

Jacob  Willis  was  born  the  6th  of  9th  mo  1695. 

Silas  Willis  was  born  the  27th  of  6th  mo  1700  and  died  1st  mo  6th  1704. 

Samuel  Willis  was  born  the  30th  of  6th  mo  1704. 

Mary  Willis  d'  of  William  and  Mary  Willis  was  born  the  23d  of  5th  mo 
1709  and  died  the  25th  of  7th  mo  1709. 

The  age  of  the  children  of  William  Willis  Junior. 
Mary  Willis  was  born  the  nth  day  of  4th  mo  17 13. 
Hannah  Willis  was  born  the  27th  of  12th  mo  1714. 

*  A  number  of  the  earlier  entries  in  this  register  were  included  in  the  "  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends 
of  the  City  of  New  York  and  Vicinity."'  conim_;.n':a.red  by  the  late  Abraham  S.  Underbill,  and  published  in 
Vols.  HI.  to  VII.  ot  the  Recoho,  and  are  therefore  omitted  in  the  present  copy. 


1*72  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  lVestburyy  L.  I.  [Oct., 

Elizabeth  Willis  was  born  the  8th  of  8th  mo  1716. 
Rachel  Willis  was  born  the  5th  of  7th  mo  17 18. 
Jacob  Willis  was  born  the  5th  of  5th  mo  1720. 
Samuel  Willis  was  born  the  27th  of  12th  mo  1721. 
Amy  Willis  was  born  the  27th  of  1st  mo  1724  and  died  10  of  11  mo 
1729. 

Mordecai  Willis  was  born  the  14th  10th  mo  1725. 
Silas  Willis  was  born  the  5th  of  7th  mo  1727. 
Martha  Willis  was  born  the  29th  of  7th  mo  1729. 
William  Willis  was  born  the  5th  of  12th  mo  173-j. 
Joseph  Willis  was  born  the  15  th  of  5  th  mo  1734. 

Clement,  son  of  Thomas  Willets,  was  born  the  15th  of  9th  mo  1709. 
Benjamin  Smith  born  6th  of  3d  mo  1685  at  Westmeath  Ireland. 

The   age  of  the  children  of  Henry  Willis  and  his   wife  Phebe   d'  of 
Thomas  Powell.     She  born  16th  of  10th  mo  1693. 
Mary  born  2 2d  of  2d  mo  1 7  [3. 
Silas  born  4th  of  1st  mo  1716. 
Phebe  born  1st  of  1st  mo  1719. 

The  age  of  the  children  of  John  Willis  and  his  wife  Abigail  d'  of  Rich- 
ard Willets.     She  born  27th  of  12th  mo  1690. 
Phebe  born  24th  of  1st  mo  17 15. 
Richard  born  30th  of  10th  mo  1716. 
Elizabeth  born  4th  of  1st  mo  1719. 
William  born  23d  of  3d  mo  1720. 
John  born  5th  of  4th  mo  1726. 
Stephen  born  13th  of  Sth  mo  1736. 

The  age  of  the  children  of  Samuel  Willis  and  his  wife  Mary,  d?  of  John 
and  Mary  Fry.     She  born  16th  of  12th  mo  1712. 
Mary  born  7th  of  3d  mo  1  73 1. 
John  born  Sth  of  2d  mo  1734. 
Sarah  born  14th  of  7th  mo  1736. 
Amy  born  27th  of  3d  mo  1738. 
Jane  born  7th  of  nth  mo  1740. 
Fry  born  9th  of  4th  mo  1744. 
Kezia  born  7th  of  4th  mo  1747. 
Henry  born  13th  of  9th  mo  1749. 
Edmund  born  29th  of  9th  mo  1752. 
Phebe  born  28th  of  5th  mo  1756. 

Children  of  Edmund  Mott  &c. 
Rickbill  born  3d  of  6th  mo  1728. 
Edmund  born  25th  of  Sth  mo  1730. 
John  born  1st  of  Sth  mo  1732. 

Children  of  Joseph  Carpenter  of  Musketo  cove  : 

Wiilet  born  18th  of  4th  mo  1714. 

Ann  born  24th  of  7th  mo  17 16. 

Phebe  born  28th  of  6th  mo  171S. 

Joseph  born  15th  of  5th  mo  1720. 

Andrew  born  1st  of  10th  mo  1722. 


1 88s-]         Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  Westbury,  L.  L  173 

Thomas  born  15th  of  2d  mo  1726. 
Francis  born  8th  of  9th  mo  172S. 
James  born  5th  of  1st  mo  1 73 1- 
Willet  died  13th  of  nth  mo  1732. 
Willet  2d,  born  5th  of  nth  mo  1735.  • 

Children  of  William  Titus  : 
Elizabeth  born  8th  of  7th  mo  1731. 
Hannah  born  26th  of  5th  mo  1733. 
Phebe  born  iSth  of  10th  mo  1735. 
Thomas  born  20th  of  1st  mo  173S. 
John  born  30th  of  10th  mo  1743. 

Children  of  Silas  Titus  and  Sarah  his  wife  : 

Edmund  born  1st  of  8th  mo  1705. 

Temperance  born  14th  of  10th  mo  1707. 

Silas  born  14th  of  9th  mo  1709. 

Sarah  born  6th  of  8th  month  1712. 

Hannah  born  29th  of  oth  mo  1714.     Died  beginning  of  9th  mo  1 715. 

Phebe  born  27th  of  7th  mo  171 7. 

David  born  20th  of  4th  mo  17 19. 

William  bom  14th  of  8th  mo  1722.' 

Mary  born  8th  of  3d  mo  1725. 

Children  of  Thomas  Hicks  and  his  wife  Temperance  : 
Hannah  born  3d  of  roth  mo  1730, 
Thomas  born  6th  of  12th  mo  1732. 

A.,        !-  born  15th  of  4th  mo  1740. 

Children  of  Richard  Post  (Junior)  : 
Henry  born  1st  of  Sj.h  mo  1733. 
Richard  born  17th  of  5th  mo  1735. 
Mary  born  6th  of  12th  mo  1737. 
Jotham  born  14th  of  7th  mo  1740. 

Children  of  Benjamin  Downing  and  his  wife  Phebe. 
Silas  born  nth  of  8th  mo  1747. 
Benjamin  born  29th  of  6th  mo  1753. 

Children  of  William  Loines  Jr.  and  Sarah  his  wife. 
James  born  1st  of  4th  mo  1768. 
Richard  born  iSth  of  12th  mo  1769. 
Anne  born  14th  of  12th  mo  1773. 
-Sarah  born  1st  of  5th  mo  17S1. 

Nathaniel  Pearsall  of  Hempstead  died  24th  of  8th  mo  1703.  Martha 
his  widow  and  d'  of  John  Seaman  of  Hempstead  died  6th  of  7th  mo  17 12. 
Their  children  : 

Nathaniel  born  27th  of  nth  mo  1676,  died  30th  of  nth  mo  1694. 

Thomas  born  18th  of  4th  mo  1679. 

Martha  born  10th  of  10th  mo  1681. 

Hannah  born  2 2d  of  1st  mo  1684,  died  20th  of  4th  mo  1689. 

Sarah  born  1st  of  5th  mo  1686. 

Elizabeth  born  28th  of  8th  mo  1688. 


174  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  IVestbury,  L.  I.         [Oct., 

Hannah  2d  born  14th  of  12th  mo  1690.  died  31st  of  nth  mo  171S. 
Phebe  born  20th  of  10th  mo  1693,  died  14th  of  1st  mo  1703. 
Samuel  bom  18th  of  12th  mo  1695,  died  4th  of  12th  mo  1720. 
Nathaniel  2d  born  nth  of  7th  mo  1699,  died  17th  of  4th  mo  1701. 
Mary  born  30th  of  2d  mo  1 703. 

Thomas  Pearsall,  of  Hempstead  Harbor,  son  of  Nathaniel  Pearsall, 
was  married  25th  of  9th  mo  170S. 

His  children.  On  ye  29th  of  6th  mo  1  709  he  had  a  son  born  that 
died  immediately. 

Thomas  born  iSth  of  5th  mo  1710. 

Nathaniel  born  2nd  of  7th  mo  1712. 

Sarah  born  6th  of  nth  1110^1714. 

Phebe  born  7th  of  1st  mo  1717. 

Martha  born  9th  of  5th  mo  17 19,  died  16th  of  12  th  mo  1721. 

Hannah  born  17th  of  10th  mo  17.21. 

Samuel  born  16th  of  9th  mo  1724. 

Mary  bom  24:11  of  5th  mo  1727. 

Children  of  Thomas  Pearsall,  son  of  Thomas  Pearsall,  of  Hempstead 
Harbor  : 

Israel  born  27th  of  9th  mo  1733. 

Thomas  born  20th  of  6th  mo  1735. 

Nathaniel  born  22a  of  12th  mo  1737,  died  26th  of  8th  mo  1 75  7. 

Mary  born  29th  of  is:  mo  1742. 

Martha  born  23d  of  9th  mo  1743. 

Children  of  John  and  Sarah  Cock.     She  bom  31st  of  6th  mo  1712  : 

Mary  born  5th  of  7th  mo  1732. 

William  born  nth  of  10th  mo  1732. 

Henry  born  10th  of  7th  mo  1735. 

Rees  born  26th  of  nth  mo  173S. 

Elizabeth  bom  9th  of  nth  mo  1740. 

Ann  born  23d  of  6th  mo   1743,  died  nth  mo  1750. 

Elijah  born  18th  of  roth  mo  1745. 

Sarah  born  15th  of  1st  mo  1748,  died  —  12th  mo  1750. 

A  child  born  25th  of  is:  mo  1752,  died  the  next  day. 

Benjamin  bom  22d  of  3d  mo  1754. 

Amy  born  25th  of  nth  mo   1756. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Martha  Cock  : 
Hannah  born  4th  of  2d  mo  1731. 
Samuel  bora  13th  of  6th  mo  1734. 
Ann  bora  23d  of  12th  mo  1736. 
Clark  born  14th  of  3th  mO  1738. 
Penelope  born  27th  of  is:  mo  1741. 

Children  of  Adam  and  Phebe  Mott,  of  Cow  Neck  : 
Elizabeth  born  31st  of  5th  mo  1733. 
Adam  born  10th  of  ic:h  mo  1734. 
Stephen  born  1st  of  2d  mo  1736. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Pryor  : 

Samuel  bora  2d  of  10th  mo  1729,  died  6th  of  3d  mo  1732. 


1885.]         Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  Westbury,  L.  I.  ijc 

Joseph  born  27th  of  nth  mo  1732. 
Thomas  born  30th  of  1st  mo  1734. 
Mary  born  22d  of  3d  mo  173S. 

Children  of  Benjamin  and  Phebe  Hicks  : 
Silas  born  10th  of  4th  mo  1737. 
Benjamin  born  28th  of  3d  mo  1739. 
Samuel  born  30th  of  8th  mo  1741. 

Children  of  Edward   and   Phebe    Hallock.      He   born    8th   of  4th   mo 
1  717.     She  (being  d'  of  John  Clays)  bom  7th  of  nth  mo  1719  : 
Hannah  born  4th  of  10th  mo  1740. 
Dorcas  born  21st  of  4th  mo  1744. 
Clement  born  21st  of  4th  mo  1746. 
Mary  born  30th  of  3d  mo  174S. 
Catherine  born  3rst  of  3d  mo  1750, 
Phebe  born  30th  of  3d  mo  1752. 
Edward  born  22d  of  4th  mo  1754. 

Children  of  Richard  and  Sarah  Mott  : 
James  born  8th  of  Sth  mo  1742. 

Children  of  John  Titus,  jr.,  of  Westbury,  and  his  wife  Sarah  : 

Henry  born  1st  of  12th  mo  1722. 

Mary  born  23d  of  nth  mo  1724. 

James  born  16th  of  7th  mo  1730. 

Elizabeth  born  16th  of  2d  mo  1733. 

Sarah  born  23d  of  10th  mo  1737. 

Jonathan  born  Sth  of  nth  mo  1743. 

Children  of  Jacob  Seaman  (the  second  of  Jericho)  and  his  wife  Ann. 
He  born  20th  of  2d  mo  1732.  She  born  3d  of  8th  mo  1731  (being  d'  of 
Author  Kirk)  : 

Benjamin  born  11  of  11  mo  1753. 
'  Jemima  born  13  of  10  mo  1755. 

Jacob  Willets  son  of  Daniel  and  Phebe  Willets  born  7  of  11  mo  1743. 
Phebe  Willets  d'  of  Daniel  and  Amy  Willets  (second  wife)  born  17  of 
12  mo  1746. 


Children  of  Josiah  and  Rebecca  Cock  : 
James  born  29  of  6  mo  1731. 
Deborah  born  21  of  7  mo  1734. 
Jacob  born  28  of  9  mo  1736. 
George  born  24  of  4  mo  1739. 
Isaac  born  6  of  9  mo  1741. 
Rhoda  born  8  of  9  mo  1741. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Philadelphia  Seaman  of  Wheatly 
Sarah  born  20  of  3  mo  1724. 
Obediah  born  17  of  2  mo  1729. 
Phebe  born  7  of  1  mo  1733. 
Mary  born  28  of  7  mo  1737. 

(To  be  continued.) 


1^6  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  i?i  New  York.  [Oct. 


RECORDS  OF    THE 
CITY 


REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH 
OF  NEW  YOkK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVI.,  p.  122,  of  The  Record.) 


IN    THE 


A*  1710. 
April  10. 

16. 


23- 


Mav  7. 


[330] 

May  14, 


18. 

21. 

24. 

Juny 

4- 
7. 
11. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

W  o  1  f  c  r  t    W  e  b  b  e  r,  Cornells. 

Grietje  Stille. 
Denys  Resje,  Susan-  Hester. 

na  Bredong. 
Johannes  Peek,  Tryn-  Wilhelmus. 

tje  Helaker. 
Isaac  de  Rie.mer,  Steenwyk. 

Aaltje  Wessels. 
Richard    Care,    Ma-  Johannes. 

rytje  Kokiver. 
A  b  r  a  h  a  m    Goiiver-  Jacob. 

near,    Maria   Leis- 

laar. 
Ide    Theunis,   Anna-  Sara. 

tje  Luykasse. 
Johannes  Van   Hein-  Marretje. 

inge,   Marretje  Fi- 
les. 
Johannes  Kouwen-  Johannes. 

hove,  Rachel  Ben- 
sing. 
G  i  e  d  i  o  n    Castang,  Martha. 

Tryn  tje  Cokevel. 
Stefanus   Boeken- Annatje. 

hove,  A  n  n  a  t  j  e 

Hoist. 
Cornelus  Louw,  Mar-  Hendrik. 

grietje  Van  Bossen. 
Thomas  J  an  sen,  An- 

tje  Van  Pelt. 
John  Laseuvalje,  Ma 

ria  de  La  Flein. 


A  n  d  r  i  e  s    Stukkey 


Catlyntje. 

Judith. 

Maerdalena. 


Maria  Brounard. 
Abraham     Provoost,  Samuel. 
Jannetje  Myer. 

Abraham  Brajor,  Eli-  Efrom. 
zabeth  Schoute. 

Johannes  Burger,  Aaltje. 

Helena  Turk. 
Samuel  Kip,   Grietje  Maria. 

Rvkman. 
Justes  Bosch, 

tje  Smith. 


Anna-  Albartus. 


GETUYGEN. 

Corneliis  Webbers,  Ra- 
chel Webber. 

Vincang  Bodinge,  Hester 
Bodinge. 

Jacob  B  o  e  1  e,  Rachel 
Peek. 

Isaac  Goiiverneur,  Mar- 
greta  Ebberts. 

Guiliam  Carsteng,  Antje 
Welvaren. 

Isaac  de  Riemer,  Mar- 
greta  Selyns. 

Luykas  Gerretse,  Alida 
Liffeston. 

Jan  Willemse  Rome,  Ma- 
ria, syn  huys  vroiiw. 

Samson  Bensing,  Jnr, 
Mary  tje  Myer. 

Theunis  Van  Woert,  Ma- 
ria Huysman. 

Evert  Van  Hoek,  Neeltje 
Jacobs,  syn  h:  vrou. 

Baren  Bos,  Marretje  Bon- 
gram. 

Hendrick  Van  Pelt,  Tie- 
tje  Van  Pelt. 

Elia  Peltro,  Maria  Bon- 
gram. 

Jacobus  Dessenne,  Mag- 
dalena  Bagiier. 

Jacobus  Provoost,  Catha- 
rina  Bedlo,  huysvr.  van 
Samuel  Staats. 

Samuel  Staats,  Aafje  Van 
H  o  o  r  n ,  huy s  vrou \v 
van  Jan  Tibbels. 

Johannes  Turk  &  Antje 
Cornelus,  s.  h.  v. 

Johannes  Rvkman,  Ra- 
chel Kierstede. 

Louwerens  Van  Hoek, 
Maria  Jeeds:  h:  vr  van 
Albartus  Coenradus 
Bosch. 


1885.]         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  \ork. 


// 


A8  1710. 


18. 


21. 


July  2. 


5- 


OUDERS.  KIXDERS. 

Johannes  Kerlbyl,  Margreta. 

Margrietje  Pro- 

voost. 
Johannes   Vreden-  Elizabeth. 

burg,   Annatje 

Montanje. 
Johan  Coenraat  Mil-  Hans  Jurie. 

ler,    Anna   Maria 

Ekkert. 
Bartholomews  Le-  Bartholeme- 

roiix,  Geertruy  Van      us. 

Rollegom. 
Hendrikus      Coerte,  Catharina. 

Elizabeth   de   Rie- 

mer. 


GETUYGEN. 

Cornelus  Klopper,  Mar- 
greta Kloppers,  svn 
moeder. 

Abram  Vredenburg,  Jesa- 
bel  Percell,  s:  h.  vr. 

Hans  Jiirie  Hortman, 
Anna  Maria  Kester, 
Elizabeth  Scaferim. 

Charel  Eeroux,  Jongm, 
Rachel  Leroiix,  Jong 
dochter. 

Mr  Fornow,  Catharina 
de  Riemer. 


Elbert  Aartse,  Anna-  Petronella 

tje  Ten  Eyk. 
Johannes    Harden- Jenneke. 

broek,    Annetje 

Bos. 
Hendrik    Franse,  Marytje.         Burger    Sipkens,    Belitje 

Reuth  Moor.  F  r  a  n  s  e,  Buys  vrouw 

van  Pieter  Christiaan- 


Johannes  Vrelant,  Mary- 
tje Appel. 

Barnardus  Hardenbroek, 
Sara  Hyer. 


19. 
23 

3°- 


Hendrikiis  Van  der 
Spiegel,  Ann  eke 
Provoost. 

Johannes  Van  de  Wa- 
ter, Baefje  Sippe. 

Johannes  Ten  Eyk, 
Wyntje  Aartse. 

Adriaan  Man,  Flester 
Bording. 

Hendrik  Vonk,  Ca- 
tharina Plegeman. 

Jacobus  Bayard,  Hil- 
legond  de  Kay. 

Willem  Bogert,  Hille- 
gont  Joris. 

John  Kruger,  Maria 
Kuvler. 

Gerret  de  Graw,  Do- 
rathe  Hyer. 

Jan  Jorisz  Van 
Hoorn,  Madalena 
Karstens. 

Samuel  Shahaan, 
Neeltje  Cosyn. 

Willem  Brouwer,  Ma- 
rytje Van  Oort. 


Louwerens.  Tobias  Stoutenburg,  Elsje 
Van  Hoorn s. 

Ariaantje.  Burger  Sippe,  Anna  Ma- 
ria Sippe. 

Johannes.  Elbert  Aartse,  Marytje 
Appel. 

Hester.  Claas  Thienhove,  Marre- 

tje  Thienhove,  s:  h:  v: 

Denvs.  Daliiis  Hegeman,  Liicre- 

tia  Hegeman. 

Maria.  Jacobus  de  Kay,  Jnr.  Ca- 

tharina Wendel. 

Susanna.  Jan  Andriesse,  Neeltje 
Van  Ploorn. 

John.  H  en  d  rik  Kuvler,  Dela 

Kuvler,  Wedw. 

Gysbertj e.  Jan  Hyer,  Jannetje 
Stymer,  s:  h:  v: 

Carste.  Man  us    Burger,    Maria 

Andriesse. 

Janneije.  John  Cure,  Gerretje  Co- 
syn, s:  h:  v: 

Annetje.  Jacob  Brouwer,  Elsje  Van 

Oort. 


1^8  Records  of  t lie  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 


[Oct., 


A"  1710. 
Augustus  6. 


:^2 


13- 


20. 


27.  - 

Sep:   1. 


6. 


10. 


17. 


OUDERS.  KINDER;,. 

Will  em    Elzewarth,  Wiihelnn'is. 
Pieternella     Rom- 
me. 

Hendrik    ten   Broek,  Johannes. 
Tryntje  Rom  me. 

Jan    Brestede,*  Anna  Jenn eke. 
Maria  Elsewarth. 

Richard   Rhee,   Elsje  John. 
Sanders. 

Louwerens  Kinne,  Johanna. 

Catharina  Davids. 
Hendrik    Verduyn,  Sara, 

Sara  Stevenson. 

Isaac   Garnje,   Eliza-  Elizabeth. 

beth  Doblets. 
Anthony  Bogardus,  Wyntje. 

Jannetje   ivnikker- 

bakker. 

Theophilus    Else- Sara. 
warth,    Sara    Ver- 
duyn. 
Leonard  Lie  wis,  Eli-  Barent. 

zabeth    Herten- 

berg. 
Benjamin  Rivers,  Benjamin . 

Aegje  Moll. 
Gerret  Van  Laar,  Jan-  Sara. 

netje  Streddels. 
Theophilus  Elswarth.  Willem. 

Bland ina  Bogar- 

dus. 
Gysbert  Van   Im-  Gysbert. 

burg,  Jannetje  Me- 

seur. 
Coenraat   Ten   Yk,  Geertje. 

Gerretje    Van 

Schaik  van  Al- 
bany. 
Johannes    Van    Xor-  Maria. 

den,  Hendrikje  ten 

Yk. 
Joseph    Robbeson,  Leonard. 

Marytje  de  Klein. 
Pieter  Anient,  Eliza-  Eldert. 

beth  Tienhove. 
Barent    de    Ereest,  Jezyntje. 

Catlyntje  Cerlv. 


GETUYGEN. 

Theodorus  P  o  1  h  e  m  u  ?. 
Aartje,  s.  hs  vrouw. 

Cornel  us  Romme,  Elsje 
ten  Broek. 

Symon  Brestede  &  Jan- 
netje van  Laar,  s:  h:v: 

Henderik  Roseboom, 
Annatje  Van  der  Spie- 
gel. 

Burger  Sippe,  Helena 
Turk. 

Theophilus  Elsewaart, 
Sara  Verduyn,  s.  h. 
vrouw. 

John  Doblet,  Judith  de 
Lamoreur. 

Elbert  Harmese,  Tryntje 
Van  Br  ugh. 

Joris  Elsewarth,  Ariaan- 
tje  Romme,  s.  h.  v. 

Thomas  Roberds,  Junior, 

J  a  a  p  j  e  Liewis,   Jon. 

dochter. 
Thomas   Slatom,    Barent 

Hibon,  Engeltje  Steen. 
An  dries    Hardenbroek, 

Sara  Hardenbroek. 
Jan    Brestede,    Catharina 

Eiely. 

Pieter  Van  Imburg,  Jong!n, 
Marvtje  Van  Imburg, 
Jongd. 

Coenraat  ten  Yk,  Sen/, 
Maike  Ten  Yk. 


Anthony  Ruthgers,  Maria 
Dusking. 

Leonard  de  KleVn,  Su- 
sanna Leysler,  s:  h:  v: 

Eldert  Anient,  Catharina 
Tienhove. 

Johannes  Van  Xorden. 
Antje  Slyk,  Wed*. 


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A*  1710. 


333.1 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Abraham  Van  Hoorn,  Helena. 
Maria  Provoost. 

Thomas  Sikkels,  Jan-  Thomas, 
netje  Brevoort. 


Septemb.  24.   Cornelus   Post,   Cat-  Johannes. 

lyntje  Potman. 
Oktob:  1.         Genet    P  r  o  v  o  o  s  t,  Elizabeth. 

Alette  Roos. 


4- 


*5- 


22. 


25. 
Novemb:  1, 


[334] 
Novemb.  5. 


Gerret  Burger.  Saar-  Gerret. 

tje  Re  Vers. 
Enog  Vrelant,  Mary-  Enoch. 

tje  Van  Hoorn. 
Benjamin  Van  Vegte,  Cornelus. 

Jannetje  Eckeson. 
David    Kermer,    De-  Jacobus. 

bora  Berrie. 

Johannes  Boke,  Mar-  Abraham. 

retje  de  Lange. 
Cornelus    Wynkoop,  Tjatje. 

Barber  Mathyssen. 
Theophilus  Pels,  Eli-  Maria. 

sabeth  Blauvelt. 
Johannes     Rosevelt,  Nicolaas. 

Heyltje  Sjoerts. 
M  a  r  i  n  u  s  Roelofse,  Jan. 

Dina  Theunis. 

Johannes  Van  der  Johannes. 

Spiegel,     Marretje 

Lierse. 
Johannes  Janse,  An-  Maria. 

na  Lierse. 
Jan  Van  Pelt,  Mary-  Mary  tje. 

tje  Peryn. 
Joost  Soy,  Sara  Van  Joost. 

Thienhove. 
William    Sjekkerly,  Cornelus. 

Debora  Van  Dyk. 
Johannes  Myer,  Sara  Isaac. 

de  Freest. 
Philippus  Daly,  Cor-  Anneke. 

nelia  Van  Gelder. 

Jan    Hver,    Jannetje  Catharina. 

Stymer. 
Andries  Douw,  Aria-  Reinier, 

antje  Van  Rhoon. 


GETUYGEN. 

Evert  Van  de  Water,  Ca- 
tharina Provoost,  s:  h: 
v: 

Elias  Brevoort,  Grietje, 
s:  hs  vrouw. 

John  Spratt,  Jong:!,  Cor- 
nelia Spratt,  Jongd°. 

Geiirt  Roos,  Willempje 
Roos,  h.  v.  van  Pieter 
Roos. 

Frans  Reverse,  Cornelia 
Disenton,  Jnr. 

Enoch  Michielse,  Vroutje 
Santvoort. 

Phlip  Van  Vegte,  Rachel 
Eckeson. 

Jacobus  Berrie,  Marite 
Van  Rollegom,  h.  v. 
van  Hend:  Kermer. 

Dirk  Bensen,  Jnr,  Mar^tje 
Boke. 

Mathys  Debois,  Sara  De- 
bois,  syn  h.  vrouw. 

Johannes  Van  Norden, 
Antje  Slyk. 

Nicolaas  Rosevelt  &  Hil- 
legont  Sjoerts. 

Willem  Echt,  Sara  Theu- 
nis,  huys  vr.  van  Meyn- 
dert  Burger. 

John  Broadek,  Mrs  Har- 
ding, op  't  Veer. 

Johannes  de  Peister,  Eli- 
sabeth Kierstede. 

Mangel  Janse  Rol,  Elsje 
Van  Pelt. 

Pieter  Anient,  Tryntje 
Van  Thienhove. 

Samuel  Staats,  Elizabeth 
Van  Dyk. 

Cornelus  Myer,  Elizabeth 
de  Freest,  Senr. 

Johannes  Van  Gelder. 
Aeije'Ross,  s.  h.  vrouw. 

Gerret    Stymer,   Dorathe 

Graw. 
Johannes     Dou,     Mayke 

Van  Rhoon. 


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[Oct. 


A^  1710. 
12. 


13 


19. 


Decemb:  1. 


10. 


13 


20. 


OUDEKS.  KINDER5. 

Samuel  Kitsom,  Jan-  Abraham. 
netje  Klasen. 

Nathan   Daly,  Sara  Jan. 

Huysman. 
Hendrik  Pels,  Sophia  Michiel. 

Parmetier. 

Pieter  Viele,   Hanna  Susje. 

Van  den  Bogert. 
Engeltje  Davids.  Elizabeth. 


Barent   Reinders, 
Hester  Leislaar. 


Barent. 


Jacob   Salomonse,  Maria. 

Elizabeth  Dee. 
Theunis  Van  Vegte,  Elsje,    16 

Antje  Heermans.         dito    ge- 


Volkert  Heermans, 
Margrietje  Ecke- 
son. 

Andries  ten  Yk,  Ba- 
rendina  Herden- 
berg. 

Meindeft  Burger,  Sa- 
ra Iedese. 

Willem  Halst,  Antje 
Wybrant. 

James  Bussy,  Catha- 
rina  Van  Gelder. 

Isaac  de  Riemer,  Jnr, 
Antje  Woertman. 

Pieter  Bant,  Marci 
White. 

Pieter  de  Gardemo, 
Martha  Van  Til- 
burs:. 


boren. 

Margrietje. 


Aafje. 

Theunis. 

FUizabeth. 

Christina. 

Hubertus. 

Jan. 


Margreta. 


[335. 


December 20.  Johannes    Montanje,  John. 
Sara  Percell. 

Dirk  Koek,  Susanna  Harmpje. 
Krigier. 

John  Thorne,   Mary-  Pieter. 
tje  Brestede. 

Hiiybert  Van  den  Ariaantje. 
Berg,  Marytje  Lan- 
cing. 

Johannes  Douw,  Sa-  Femmetje. 
ra  de  Freest. 


24. 


26. 


3* 


GETUYGEN. 

Samson  Bensen,  Cathari- 
na  Bensen,  h.  v.  van 
Matheus  Bensen. 

Everardus  Bogardus,  Ma- 
rytje  Huysman. 

Michiel  Parmetier,  Neel- 
tje  Dames. 

Hendrik  Pels,  Sophia 
Parmetier. 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Burger 
Sippe,  Helena  Burgers, 
b.  v.  v.  J  oh:  Burger. 

Isaac  Gouverneiir,  Catha- 
rina  Bedlo,  h.  v.  van 
Doc1  Samuel  Staats. 

Frans  Abramse,  Jannetje 
Salomons. 

Phlip  Van  Vegte,  Saar- 
tje  Heermans. 

Benjamin  Van  Vegte, 
Margrietje  Van  Bos- 
sem. 

Jacob  Ten  Yk,  Neeltje 
Herdenberg.  s.  b.  v. 

Anthony  Byvank  en  Te- 

untje,  svn  hs  vrouw. 
Dirk  Koek,  David  Janse, 

Trvntje  Wy  brants. 
Johannes  Van  Gelder,  & 

Aefje  Roos.  s.  h.  vrouw. 
Hendrikus  Coerten,    Ca- 

tharina  de  Riemer. 
Jan  Wyte,  Maria  T>Vyt. 

Samson  Bensen,  Elizabeth 
Bensen. 


John  Percell,  Mary  Per- 
cell. 

Jan  Canon,  Elizabeth 
Daly. 

Pieter" Brestede,  Margrie- 
tje Rvke,  s:  h:  vrou. 

Isaac  de  Riemer,  Rachel 
Mountes. 

Jan  Willes.  Margreta 
Douw  s:  hs  vrou. 


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Ae  1710. 


A0  1  711. 
January 

7- 
10. 


14. 
17. 


21. 


[336] 

January  31. 
February  4. 


11. 


18. 


21. 


OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

Jan  Pouwelse,  Anna-  Ariaantje. 
tje  Hujsman. 

John    Waldron,  Cor-  Gerardus. 
nelia  Hartenberg. 

Benjamin  Bill,  Geesje  Marytje, 

Franse. 
Nicolaas  Rosevelt,  Catharina. 

Jr,  Sara  Follemans. 
Lodewyk  Peerts,  Ca-  Anna  Maria. 

tharina  Lapping. 
Davidt  Mandeviel,  Jacob. 

Jannetje  Someren- 

dyk. 
Reynier  Van  Hoese,  Marytje. 

Annatje  Stevense, 
Andries  Abramse,  Ja-  Sara. 

quemyntje     Wans- 

haar.' 
Elias  Brevoort,  Grie-  Aegje. 

tje  Sammons. 
CJo  r  n  e  1  i  s  Jacobse,  Marytje. 

Janneke  Peerss. 
Jacob-Franse,  Anne-  Daniel. 

tje  Franse. 
Hans  Kierstede,  Ma-  Cathalina. 

ria  Van  Vlek. 
Samuel  Philipz,  Aal-  John. 

tje  Dame. 


Benjamin    Oldes,  Benjamin. 

Aaltje  Schars. 
Nicolaas  Someren-  Annetje. 

dyk,  Mar  grie tj  e 

Heermans. 
Abraham  de  Reviere,  Johannes. 

Jnr,  Wyntje  Kranc- 

heyt. 
Johannes    Sebring,  Geertruyd. 

Jnr,  Rachel  Hibon. 
Jacobus  Van   Varik,  Johanna. 

Anna    Maria    Bre- 

stede. 

Harmands  Myer,  Martinus. 
Flelena  Post. 

Burger  Manus,  Geer-  Metje. 
truy  Korse. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannes    Huster,    Mag- 

teltje     Pouwels,    s.    h. 
vrouw. 
Leonard   Lievvis,    Jaapje 

Hardenberg. 

Pieter  Bedlo,  Isaac  Bedlo 

Belitje  Franse. 
Nicolaas     Rosevel,     Ze 

Catharina  Follemans. 
Coert  Fredrik,  Anna  Afa 

rya  Wysing. 
David   Mandeviel,    Se 

Marytje  Someren  dyk. 

Abraham  Provoost,  Ant 

Kouwenhove. 
Johannes    Van  der  Heul 
Susanna  Wanshaar. 

Johannes  Thomasse,  Jan- 
netje Sammons. 
Elias  Ellesson,  Sara  Peers. 

Jacob    Salomon  se,    Mar- 

gnet  Franse. 
Abraham  Kip,   Rachel 

Kierstede. 
Johannes    Vrelant,    Dina 

Kloppers,   hiiys  vrouw 

van  Steve  Brabele. 

Robberd  Poddenton, 
Hester  Blank,  Jnr. 

Theunis  Cornelisse,  An- 
netje Claase. 

Jan  Canon,  Marytje  Le- 
gran,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Johannes  Narbiiry,  JNTa- 
rya  Hibon,  s:h5  vrou. 

Johannes  Brestede,  An- 
netje Van  Bosseni,  h: 
v:  van  Andries  Bre- 
stede. 

Abraham  Van  Gelder, 
Catlyntje  Post,  s:  hs: 
vrouw. 

Biirger  Sipkens,  Dorathe 
Grienham. 


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A°  1710. 


A°  1  711. 
January  3. 


7- 
10. 


14. 


17. 


21. 


[336] 

January  31. 
P^ebruarv  4. 


11. 

18. 


OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

Jan  Pouwelse,  Anna-  Ariaantje. 
tje  Huysman. 

John    Waldron,  Cor-  Gerardus. 
nelia  Hartenbere. 


Benjamin  Bill,  Geesje 

Franse. 
Nicolaas  Rosevelt, 

Jr,  Sara  Follemans. 
Lodewyk  Peerts,  Ca- 

tharina  Lapping. 
David t   Mandeviel, 

Jannetje  Someren- 

dyk. 
Reynier  Van  Hoese, 

Annatje  Stevense. 
Andries  Abramse,  Ja- 

quemyntje     Wans- 

haar. 
Elias  Brevoortj  Grie- 

tje  Sammons. 
C^o  r  n  e  1  i  s  Jacobse, 

Janneke  Peerss. 
Jacob-Franse,  Anne- 

tje  Franse. 
Hans  Kierstede,  Ma- 
ria Van  Vlek. 
Samuel  Philipz,  Aal- 

tje  Dame. 


Mary  tje, 

Catharina. 
Anna  Maria. 
Jacob. 

Mary  tje. 
Sara. 

Aegje. 
Mary  tje. 
Daniel. 
Cathalina. 
John. 


2  1, 


Benjamin    Oldes,  Benjamin. 

Aaltje  Schars. 
Nicolaas  Someren-  Annetje. 

dyk,  Mar  grietj  e 

Heermans. 
Abraham  de  Reviere,  Johannes. 

Jnr,  Wyntje  Kranc- 

heyt. 
Johannes    Sebring,  Geertriiyd. 

Jnr,  Rachel  Hibon. 
Jacobus  Van   Varik,  Johanna. 

Anna   Maria    Bre- 

stede. 

Flarmantis  Myer,  Martinus. 
Helena  Post. 

Burger  Mantis,  Geer-  Metje. 
truy  Korse. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannes  Huster,  Mag- 
teltje  Pouwels,  s.  h. 
vrouw. 

Leonard  Liewis,  Jaapie 
Hardenberg. 

Pieter  Bedlo,  Isaac  Bedlo 

Belitje  Franse. 
Nicolaas     Rosevel,     Ze 

Catharina  Follemans. 
Coert  Fredrik,  Anna  A  fa 

rya  Wysing. 
David   Mandeviel,    Se 

Mary  tje  Somerendyk. 

Abraham  Provoost,  Ant 

Kouwenhove. 
Johannes    Van  der  Heul 

Susanna  Wanshaar. 

Johannes  Thomasse,  Jan- 
netje Sammons. 
Elias  Ellesson,  Sara  Peers. 

Jacob    Salomonse,     Mar- 

gnet  Franse. 
Abraham  Kip,   Rachel 

Kierstede. 
Johannes    Vrelant,    Dina 

Kloppers,   huys  vrouw 

van  Steve  Brabele. 

Robberd  Poddenton, 
Hester  Blank,  Jnr. 

Theunis  Cornelisse,  An- 
netje Claase. 

Jan  Canon,  Marytje  Le- 
gran,  s.  h.  vrou. 

Johannes  Narbiiry,  Ma- 
rva  Hibon,  s:hs  vrou. 

Johannes  Brestede,  An- 
netje Van  Bossem,  h: 
v:  van  Andries  Bre- 
stede. 

Abraham  Van  Gelder, 
Catlyntje  Post,  s:  hs: 
vrotiw. 

Burger  Sipkens,  Dorathe 
Grienhara. 


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A0  1711. 

OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

25- 

Heddrik  Kuyler,  Ma- 
ria Jacobs. 

Anna. 

Maart  2. 

Steven  Weys,  Susan- 

Ledewyk. 

4. 

na  Pmgery. 

Jan  Van  Beiire,  Ma- 
ria Myer. 

Jacob  Myer,  Annatje 
Kammega. 

Christina. 
Adolph. 

11. 

Jan   Kanon,  Marytje 

Petrus. 

Legran. 

Johannes  Slegt,  Tryn- 
tje  Bergen. 

Willem  Swanser,  Ra- 
chel Webbers. 

Johannes. 
Willem. 

Fredrik    Wiilemse, 

Wilhelm.us, 

14. 

[337] 

Maart  14. 


18. 


25- 


A[nr\-tie  Waldrom. 


Nicolaas  Daly,  Eliza-  Elizabeth. 

beth  Krigier. 
Jacob  Brat,  Aefje  Barent. 

Wessels. 
De  Slavin  van  Abra-  Anna. 

ham  Kip. 


Jonathan  Main,  Sara 

Koek. 
Gilbert  Ash,  Neeltje 

Plevier. 
Andries    Ely,    Anna 

Resina. 
Pieter  Van   Kouwen- 

hove,   Wvntje   ten 

Yk. 
Harme   Van   Hoese, 

Geesje  Heermans. 


Willem  Echt,  Marre- 
tje  Van  Dyk. 

Francois  Buys,  Over- 
lede,  Annatje  Wal- 
drom. 

John  Theobleds,  Senr, 
Aefje  Van  Hoorn. 

Gualther  Hyer,  An- 
natje Blom. 


GETUVGEN. 

Francois     Fincang,    Sara 

Van  Brugh,   buys  vrou 

van  Pieter  Van  Brugh. 
Lodewyk    Peerts,    Anna 

Maria  Weysing. 
Michiel  Basset,  Elizabeth 

Kierstede. 
Johannes  Myer,  Maria 

Myer,  Wed.  "van  Adolf 

Myer. 
HarmaniisRuthgers,  Cor- 
nelia de  Windel. 
Abraham  Slegt  en  Janne- 

tje,  S:  h.  vrouvv. 
Benjamin      Quakkenbos, 

Claasje  Wrebbers,  s:  h: 

vrouw. 
Ruthgert  Waldrom,  Mar- 

grietje    Willem s,   h3   v. 

van  Philippus  van  Bos- 

sem. 
Dirk     Koek,    Tryntje 

Thienhove. 
Isaac  Bratt,   Anna  Mar- 

grietje  Egberts. 
op    belydenisse    des    ge- 

loofs. 


Thomas. 

Dirk    Koek,   Susanna 

Krigier,  s.  h.  v. 

George. 

Gerret   Onkelbag,    Eliza- 

beth Plevier. 

Christiaan. 

Christiaan  Echler,  Maria 

Neef. 

Coenraat. 

Johannes  ten  Yk,  Marre- 

tje  Aartse. 

Mary-  )  i 

Jacob  Sammon,  Catlyntje 

tje/     [| 

Bensing,   Nicolaas   So- 

Elsje.      )  5 

merendyk,     G  r  i  e  t  j  e 

Heermans. 

Abraham. 

Gerret  Wouterse,  Imme- 

tje    Van    Dyk,    s:    h: 

vrouvv. 

Francois. 

Ruthgert   Waldrom,   Da- 

niel  Waldrom,    Catha- 

rina  Philips. 

Anna. 

John  Theobleds,  Jnr,  Mary 

Theobleds. 

Gerret. 

Jan  de  Lamontanje,  Ma- 

ria Hyer. 

. 


. 


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A"  171; 


28. 


April  4. 
8. 


u. 


29. 


May  2. 


OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

William  Walton,  Ma-  James. 
ria  Santvoort. 

Benjamin    Qurkken-  Lea. 
bos,  Claasje   Web- 
bers. 

Johannes   cle   Freest,  Johannes. 
Catharina    Rave- 
stein. 

Jan    Wvkof,    Geertje  Cornelus.        Gvsbert   Bogert,    Geertje 
Strikers.  Wykof. 

Christiaan   E  c  h  1  e  r,  Andries.         Andries  Elech,    Anna 
Maria  Neef. 


GETUYGEN. 

Justes  Bosch,  Annetje 
Smith,  s:  h:  vrouvv. 

Arie  Quakkenbos,  Die- 
vertje  Quakkenbos. 

Iedde  Myer,  Margreta  de 
Freest. 


Jaques  Fontein,  An-  Jaques. 
neke  Webber. 

Petrus  Kip,  Immetje  Anna. 

Van  Dyk. 
Isaac    Gouverneur,  Alida. 

Sara  Staats. 


Rasyna. 
Albert    Klok,  Annatje 

Moor,    h:   v:  v:   Ellen 

Sjerret. 
Hendrikus    Kip,    A  n  n  a 

Van  Dyk. 
Joachim    Staats,    Alida 

Peinders. 


Steven  a,  Brakele,  Margrietje.     Cornelus  Klopper,    Joha 


Dina  Kloppers. 


Zoon,  Aefje  Klopper, 
huys  v.  van  Cornelus 
Klopper,  Senr. 


[33S] 

April  18. 

N  i  co  1  a  a  s     Persell, 

Aelije  Flyer. 

Dorathea 

22. 

Isaac  Boeke,   Catha- 
rina Waldrom. 

Sara. 

25- 

Jacobus  Kwik,  Mary- 
tje  Smith. 

•  Jacobus. 

John    Persell,    Lea    Van 

Alst. 
Daniel  Waldrom,  Catha- 
rina Boele. 
Cornelus   Klopper,    Senr, 
Cathalyna  Klopper,  h. 
v.  van  Jan  Stevens. 
Jan    Stevens,   Catha-  Jan,   gebo-     Jacobus  Kwik  &de  Moe- 
lina  Kloppers.  r  e  n  J  uly         der  Self. 

18  1701. 
Pieter,   ge- 
boren  febr: 
2   1707. 
Isaac    Bedlo,   Susan-  Susanna. 
na  Brajor. 


Anthon y  Ruthgers,  Anthony. 

Hendrikje   Van  de 

Water. 
Johannes   Hennejon,  Margreta. 

Margreta  Daly. 
Michiel   Basset,    Fie-  Marytje. 

lena  Van  Alst. 
Willem   Ferbes,   Abi-  William. 

gael  Falentyn. 
Johannes   Myer,   Ca-  Maria. 

tharina  Dalsing. 


John  Theobleds,  Senr, 
Aefje  Van  Hoorn,  s:h. 
vrouw. 

G  e  r  r  e  t  Duyking,  Elsje 
Schuyler. 


David  Henion,  Margreta 

Kool. 
Nicolaas  Van  Thienhove, 

Anna  Millers. 
Dirk  Adolf  alias  de  Groof, 

Tryntje  Koker. 
Ado'lf    Myer,    Jannetje 

Kierse. 


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184  Notes  and  Queries.  [Oct., 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Estaerook  Family.—  W.  B.  Estabrook,  of  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  is  compiling  a  "Gene- 
alogy of  the  Estabrook  Family,"  descendants  of  Rev.  Joseph,  and  Thomas  Estabrook, 
respectively,  who  came  from  Enfield,  Middlesex",  England,  to  Concord,  Mass.,  in  1C60. 
Facts  in  regard  to  any  branch  of  the  family  are  solicited.  His  own  line  comes  as  ( 
Rev.  Joseph  (1),  Rev.  Samuel  (2),  Rev.  Hobart  (3),  Hobart(4),  Hobart  (5),  Herman  (6), 
William  B.  (7). 

Cornell. — Miss  Catherine  Cornell  died  recently/in  the  ninety-fifth  year  of  her  age,  at 
her  residence,  No.  5S  Fierrepont  Street,  Brooklyn.  She  was  the  eldest  of  twelve  chil- 
dren, only  two  of  whom  survive  her.  These  are  Isaac  R.  Cornell,  of  this  city,  who  is 
eighty  years  of  age,  and  Peter  C.  Cornell,  of  Brooklyn,  who  is  over  eighty-two  years  of 
age.  Fifty  years  ago  Miss  Cornell  purchased  her  Fierrepont  Street  residence,  and  was 
never  absent  from  it  for  twenty-four  consecutive  hours.  She  was  born  in  a  substantial,  old- 
fashioned  mansion,  which  stood  on  the  land  now  occupied  by  the  Atlantic  docks.  Nearly 
all  of  the  dock  property  was  at  one  time  owned  by  her  father,  John  Cornell,  who  died 
on  January  21.  i>20.  He  inherited  it  from  his  father.  Whitehead  Cornell,  who  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  Long  Island,  where  he  was  born.  Flis  father  was  an  Englishman 
and  his  mother  a  Huguenot.  The  latter  was  the  daughter  of  Simon  Cortelyou,  who 
owned  a  large  farm  rear  the  Narrows. 

Nearly  all  the  members  of  the  family  on  both  sides  have  been  long-lived.  Whitehead 
Cornell  was  over  eighty  when  he  died.  His  father  reachecUthe  same  age.  Miss  Cor- 
__-m-  _.-u-v  Was  borri  r„  \r-,-  ^o.  1767,  and  died  in  1859:  None  of  the  members  of 
the  family  took  part  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  but  attended  strictly  to  their  business  of 
farming.  John  Cornell  was  one  of  the  founders  of  old  St.  Ann's  Church,  Brooklyn. 
Miss  Catherine  Cornell  was  fur  many  years  a  communicant  of  Grace  Church,  Brooklyn, 
and  was  a  woman  of  exemplary  character.  Up  to  within  a  short  period  of  her  death, 
which  was  attributed  to  old  age,  her  health  was  good.  She  was  buried  in  the  family 
vault  in  Greenwood  Cemetery.  w. 

Chaffee  Family. — Wliliarn'-H.  Chaffee,  P.  O.  Box,  3068,  New  York  City,  is  vig- 
orously prosecuting  toward  completion  the  genealogy  of  the  Chaffee  Family. 

Eliot  Genealogy — The  undersigned  is  collecting  facts  in  regard  to  those  who  have 
the  surname  of  Eliot,  Elyot,  Elyott,  Elliot,  and  Elliott. 

The  following  inquiries  are  submitted,  not  as  applicable  to  all  persons,  young  and 
old,  living  and  dead  ;  nor  as  including  all  facts  that  should  be  recorded,  but  as  indicating 
the  principal  subjects  concerning  which  information  is  desired.  Too  much  attention  can- 
not be  given  to  accuracy  and  fulness  of  dates  and  names  of  places. 

Correspondents  will  confer  a  favor  by  writing  their  replies  upon  foolscap  paper,  and 
numbering  them,  to  correspond  with  the  number  of  the  inquiries. 

1.  Name  in  full,  including  first,  middle,  and  last. 

2.  Place(s)  of  residence. 

3.  Occupation. 

4.  Place  and  date  of  birth,  giving  the  parish,  town,  State,  and  country;  also  month, 
day  and  year  of  birth. 

5.  Full  name  of  father  ;  his  residence  and  occupation. 

6.  Maiden  name  of  mother  ;  the  names  and  residences  of  her  father  and  mother. 

7.  The  names  and  residences  of  ancestors,  near  and  remote,  with  any  matter  pertaining 
to  them. 

8.  Places  of  education  and  names  of  teachers. 

9.  Marriage. 

10.  Children  :  dates  of  births,  and  other  dates  in  regard  to  them. 

11.  Publications. 

12.  Miscellaneous,  including  any  facts  not  comprehended  in  the  above. 

Address,  rev.  john  E.  eliot. 

Bridgcwater^  Com.  - 

Gracie,  GESNER,  and  Mann  Families. — A  Rachel  Grade  married  Abraham  Post. 
She  had  a  brother  living  at  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  and  one  at  or  near  Derby,  Conn. — supposed 
Daniel  ;   had  something  to  do  with  vessels  about  1770. 

John  Hendrik  Ge.ner  (or  Gessinger).  who  came  to  this  country  from  Germany  year 


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1709.  married  an  Elizabeth    Smit  or  Smythe;  had  a  daughter  born  a  few  weeks  before 
they  emigrated;  named  her  Elizabeth.     Wanted  the  early  history  and  also  information  of 
this  child  Elizabeth,  supposed  married  a  Valentine  about  or  at  New  York,  as  John  Hen- 
drik  lived  at  Yonkers  some  years  and  died  there.     The  Gesner.  sometimes  spelle     G     tier 
or  Gosner.  came  originally  from  Munich,  or  Obergiesing,  River  Rhone. 

Should  be  glad  to  get  information  of  the  JIann  family  previous  to  1733.  Widow  and 
children  came  to  this  country  about  1760.  George  settled  at  Rockland,  west  side  of  the 
Hudson  River;  Michael  settled  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Hudson,  near  what  is  now  called 
Irvington  ;    David  and  Matthias  in  or  near  New  York.  \\\   n.   GESNER. 

Neio  Havens  Conn, 

Hinman's  Puritan  Settlers  oe  Connecticut. — The  genealogical  manuscrij  ts     f 

the  late  Hon.  R.  R.  Hinman,  which  were,  a  few  years  previous  to  the  death  of  the 
%  tinguished  author,  deposited  in  the  custody  of  the  N.  E.  Historic-Gene.  .  -    ciely, 

have    been    placed    for    arrangement  in  the  hands  of    Rev.  Anson  Titus, 
Mass. .  who  has  issued  a  circular  stating  that  he  "will  answer  calls  from  genealogists  and 
historians  for  examination  and  transcribing.     Terms  reasonable." 

Lawrence  Wills. —  William  Lavcr  er.ee,  the  first.  —  In  looking  over  ancient  records 
in  office  of  Secretary  of  State,  at  Trenton.  N.  J.,  a  few  cays  ago,  I  found  recr  led  (Lib. 
I,  p.  56)  the  will  of  William  Lawrence,  the  founder  of  the  Lawrence  family  of  New  Jersey, 
who  came  from  Long  Eland  to  Monmouth  Co.,  N.  J.,  about  1667,  with  thee: 
settlers  of  that  place.  The  will  is  cuke  lengthy  and  shows  that  he  was  an  extensive  \  re  p- 
erty  holder.  It  names  wife  Elizabeth,  sons  James,  William,  Benjamin,  Elisha,  J  km 
Joseph;  grandsons,  James  Grover,  William,  son  of  William  Lawrence  ;  William,  5  n  :' 
Elisha  Jdawrence  :  p'''^'  ~^ti  nf  To<eph  Tivrence:  granddaughters",  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  James  Lawrence  ;  Deborah,  Mary  Hannah.,  Elizabeth,  Susannah,  and  Rebecca  Graver. 
Executors,  sons  William  and  Elisha.      Will  dated  December  3,  1701. 

Will  of  Elisha  Lawrtnee,  son  of  William  Lawrence  1st,  is  dated  April  14.  1722,  and 
proven  May,  1724.  It  names  wife  Lucy,  sons  Elisha.  John,  and  Joseph;  daughters 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Salter;  Sarah,  wife  of  John  Finlay ;  Hannah,  wife  '  \  Ric  -.:  :. 
Salter  2d.  and  Rebecca  Lawrence.  A  codicil  to  the  will  is  dated  March  14,  1723.  Lid. 
A,  p.  292.) 

Will  of  John  Lawrence,  son  of  William  1st,  is  dated  April  4,  1719,  and  names  wife 
Rachel,  sons  John.  Gibbons,  Benjamin;  daughters  Constant,  Rachel,  Hannah,  Mary, 
and  Dorcas,  and  a  granddaughter  Rachel.      (Lib.  A.  p.   153.) 

The  children  of  William  Lawrence.  Jr.,  are  named  on  p.  142  oi  the  last  numl  er  of  the 
Record.  edwin  Salter. 

Washington^  D.  C. 

Lyon  Family. — The  Lyon  Genealogy,  by  Henry  A.  May,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  will,  it 
is  said,  be  put  to  press  early  the  coming  winter. 

Mol  (Record,  Vol.  xvi.,  143).— The  children  of  John  Jansen  Ml  and  Ids  wife 
Engeltie  Pieters  (who  was  married  at   Esopus,  November  20,  1675),  all      .;  ii    tl  : 

Dutch  Church,  N.  Y..  were  Pieter,  bap."  May  23.  1677  ;  Maria,  September  29.  l(  -c  : 
Abraham,  February  18,-1682;  Jacobus,  January  30,  1684 ;  Aefje,  April  21,  1CS6 
(died  young  ;  Johannes,  April  S,  1688  ;  Aefje,  again,  September  S:  1690;  an  .  Isaac, 
May  1,  1692.  Their  daughter  Maria  mar.  Jacob  Nicolaasz.  October  20,  1703  ;  ar  1 
Aefje  (second;  mar.  Benjamin  Rievers  (Rivers),  November  9,  1708.  J.  J.  U 

Rhode  Island  Genealogical  Dictionary.— J.  O.  Austin,  of  Pr  .  R.  I., 

has  issued  a  prospectus  announcing  as  nearly  ready  for  the  press  a  "'  Genealogi  >nary 

of  Rhode  Eland.''  The  work  will  embrace  a  record  of  the  founders  or  the  State,  and  : 
their  descendants  to  the  third  and  in  many  instances  to  the  fourth  generation.  Subscrip- 
tion price,  §10  per  copy. 

Riker,  James.— The  undersigned  would  respectfully  announce  that,  having  given 
many  years  to  investigating  the  history  of  our  early  colonists,  hiefly  those  wh  -  ttled 
within' the  States  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  he  has  accun  alated  a  m 
tion  regarding  the- heads  of  families,  especially  those  of  Dutch  and  U  :;  1  -  traction, 
which  he  will  furnish  to  such  as  may  desire  it  ;  charges  moderate.  _  An  :  : 
sons  are  now  found  among  us  who  can  translate  the  old  records  \\hich  ren  in  :  z  Hol- 
land tongue,  he  is  prepared  to~"make  any  such  translation,  on  being  applied  to. 

JAMES  RIKEK,   Hit. run. 

Waverly,  N.  Y.\ 


1 86  Notes  on  Books.  [Oct., 

Sharpless  Family. — Gilbert  Cope,  of  Westchester,  Pa.,  has  issued  a  prospectus 
announcing  that  the  work  on  the  Sharpless  Family  ;'  is  now  so  far  advanced  toward  com- 
pletion," that  he  has  determined  to  put  it  into  the  printer's  hands  at  an  early  day.  Sub- 
scriptions are  solicited,  price  £5  per  copy,  which  may  be  sent  to  the  author. 

Stiles  Family. — Dr.  Henry  R.  Stiles,  109  Fulton  Street,  New  York  City,  expects 
to   put   to  press  this  coming  winter  the  "  Genealogy  of  the  Stiles  Family  in  America." 

Address  as  above. 

Storrs  Family. — The  Storrs  Genealogy,  compiled  by  the  late  Mr.  Charles  Storrs, 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  is  now  going  through  the  press. 

Williams. — Dr.  Guild,  of  Brown  University,  is  writing  a  "  Life  of  Ro-er  Williams," 
which  ought  to  have  a  genealogy  printed  in  connection  with  it.  Mr.  Guild  has  also 
lately  written  a  sketch  of  Chaplain  Smith,  of  the  Revolution,  which  is  published  by  the 
American  Baptist  Publication  Society,  of  New  York,  and  which  contains  a  valuable 
diary,  throwing  much  light  upon  the  Battle  of  Saratoga. 

Willis. — Whose  Bible  is  it  ?  While  rebuilding  an  old  house  at  Maplewood,  N.  J., 
there  was  found  in  the  garret  a  Bible  having  a  family  record  as  follows  : 

William  Willis,  first  son  of  William  and  Bathsheba  Willis,  was  born,  March  27,  1754. 
Bethuel  Willis,  their  second  son,  was  born  April  0,  1757. 

February  12,  1761. 

November  22,  1762. 

October  22,  1765. 

December  30,  1767. 

May  15,  1709. 

September  19,  1S72. 

September  9,  1774. 
died  October  9,  1774,  aged  forty-nine  years. 
The  above  Bible  is  now  in  my  possession,  and  may  be  seen  by  interested  parties. 

DANIEL  H.   CARPENTER. 

70  Clarkson  Street,  Nero  York. 


Joseph         " 

"      third 

Russell 

"      fourth    " 

John            ' ' 

'«      fifth        " 

Lewis           " 

"      sixth       " 

Anthony      lk 

"      seventh  " 

Welthy         Ci 

"      first  daughter, 

Nancy           ' ' 

11      second    " 

William  Willis 

;,  their  father,  died  0 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 


DIARY  OF  DAVID  Zeisberger,  A  Moravian  Missionary  among  the  Indians  of  Ohio. 

Translated  from  the  Original  German  Manuscript  and  Edited  by  Eugene  F.  Bliss. 

Cincinnati,  Robert  Clarke  Cm  Co.,  for  the  Historical  and  Philosophical  Society  of 

Ohio,  1SS5.  2  vols.  Svo,  pp.  xxxii.,  464,  and  535. 
The  "Zeisberger  Manuscript,"  which  came  into  the  hands  of  the  Historical  and 
Philosophical  Society  of  Ohio  in  1S54,  is  the  private  journal  of  David  Zeisberger,  the 
Moravian  Missionary  among  the  Indians  of  Ohio,  who  devoted  the  last  sixty  years  of  his 
life  to  this  work,  and  died  in  180S,  aged  eighty-seven.  It  covers  a  period  from  17S1  to 
1797  ;  and  is  a  most  interesting  record  of  an  earnest,  godly  man,  whose  fate  it  was  "  to 
labor  among  a  hopeless  race.  In  his  last  years  he  could  see  no  lasting  monument  of  his 
labor.  Even  the  Indian  converts  immediately  about  him  were  a  cause  of  sorrow  to  him." 
Yet  trials,  poverty,  constant  personal  danger,  discouragement,  and  bufletings  never  les- 
sened his  activity,  his  cheerfulness,  his  patience  with  the  erring  converts,  his  contempt  of 
danger,  his  forethought  for  others,  and  his  perfect  sacrifice  of  self.  With  him,  co-laborers 
in  the  Muskingum  Valley,  at  this  time  were  five  oilier  missionaries,  Heckwelder,  Sense- 
mann,  Edwards,  Jung,  and  Jungmann. 

These  volumes  form  an  interesting  and  most  important  contribution  to  American 
Indian  history,  especially  as  regards  the  relations  existing  between  them  and  the  English 
during  the  fifteen  years  preceding  the  cession  of  the  Western  Posts  to  the  United  States 
in  1796.  It  is  equally  interesting  from  a  psychological  point  of  view.  As  the  translator 
well  says  :  k<  The  action  of  white  men  upon  Indians,  Christians  upon  heathen,  the  "civ- 
ilized upon  savages,  can  well  be  studied  in  these  pages.  Here  and  there  also  can  be 
observed  the  reaction  of  the  Indian  upon  the  white."  H.  R.  s. 


1 83 5.]  Notes  on  Becks.  1 87 

i  Biographical  Sketches  or  the  Graduates  of  Yale  College,  with  Annals  of 

the   College   History.     October,   1701— May,   1745.     By  Franklin   Bow- 
ditch  Dexter,  M.A.     New  York,  Henry  Hoit  S:  Co.,  1SS5.      Royal   8vo,  viii., 
7SS. 
j  This  book  has  been,  within  three  weeks  since  it  came  to  us,  a  source  of  daily  refer- 

ence and  perusal;  and  .we  have  found  it  a  most  charming  volume.  We  predict  that 
librarians  all  over  the  land  will  find  it  to  be  one  of  that  class  of  books  upon  their  ' 
shelves  which  are  oftenest  called  for  by  students.  Mr.  Dexter  has  done  a  noble  work 
for  Yale  College  in  the  preparation  of  mis  record  of  its  gra  luates  luring  its  first  half-cen- 
tury. The  arrangement  of  the  volume  is  as  simple  and  admirable  as  its  typographical 
appearance  is  stately,  dignified,  and  elegant.  "  The  Annals  of  each  College  year,  ending 
with  Commencement  Day.  are  given  in  or.ier,  and  annexed  to  this  survey  of  each  year 
are  biographical  sketches' of  those  g:  :   --  its  close;  these   sketches  of  each  class 

'  )  are  arrayed  in  alpha!  etical  se  ouence,  preceded  1  y  the  class-list  as  it  has  always  stood  (in 

Latinj  in  the  Triennial  Catalogue  of  Graduates,  in  which  ike  ?iames  were  entered  {until  the 
Class  of  1767)  in  the  order  of  family  rank"  (the  italics  are  our  own).  The  appendix- 
contains  a  very  interesting  a:.  I  valua  le  statistical  article  on  the  "  Length  of  Life  of  the 
Graduates"  of  the  College,  by  Professor  H.  A.  Newton,  of  New  Haven. 

The  Biographical  Annals  (as  far  as  patient  research  can  furnish  the  materials)  of  four 
hundred  and  eighty- three  graduates  are  here  given,  and  no  one  can  peruse  them  \vi 
*  being  strongly  impressed  with  the  great  power  o\  moulding  and  directing  the  growth  of  a 

community  which" springs  from  such  an  institution.  The  main  authorities  used  in  the 
compilation  are  given  at  the  end  of  each  biography;  yet  they  really  do  not  represent  the 
full  amount  of  labor,  of  research,  comparison,  etc..  which  Mr.  Dexter-has  given  to  this 
matter,  and  which  c?n  onlv  he  "read  between  the  lines"  by  those  whose  experience 
has  been  in  similar  fields  of  labor.  We  are  sincerely  glad  to  learn  that  '-materials  are 
already  in  part  collected  for  the  continuation  "  of  these  sketches  and  annals— for  it  is  a 
work  which  genealogists  at  least  would  not  willingly  see  interrupted  or  abruptly  closed. 
fc  H-  R-  5- 

Biography  of  a  Pioneer  Manufacturer.  Pioneer  Paper-making  in  Berk- 
shire. Life,  Life  Works,  and  Influence  of  Zenas  Crane.  By  J.  E.  A. 
Smith.  Printed  ioi-  Private  Circulation.  Claris  W.  Bryan  ck  Co.,  Printers,  licly- 
oke.  Mass..  and  New  York  City,     4:0,  pp.  55.      Portrait. 

This  modest  and  elegant  brochure  reads  like  a  romance— the  romance  of  real  life  and 
an  honorable  industry.  Zenas  Crane,  a  native  of  Canton,  Norwich  County,  Mass. .  learned 
his  life-business  in  the  first  paper  mill  in  Massachusetts,  established  at  Milton,  in  1730, 
and  at  General  Biirbank's  mill  at  Worcester.  In  1790,  he  established  the  first  paper  mill 
in  Massachusetts  west  of  the  Connecticut  River,  at  Dalton,  Berkshire  County  ;  and  from 
that  little  becdnning  has  since  grown  the  great  mills  of  Crane  &  Co..  now  known  a-  _  \r 
excellence  "the  bank-note  paoer  makers  of  this  country,"  making,  on  a  contract  awry  le  I 
in  1S79,  ail  the  paoer  reouired  bv  the  United  States  Government  for  national  bank-bills, 
United  States  bonds,  certificate  and  treasury  notes.  Mr.  Crane  was  (as  was  his  son, 
Zenas,  Jr.,  after  him  also  prominent  in  political  matters,  and  a  member  of  tne  State 
House  of  Representatives.  'lie  died  Tune  20,  104,5.  at  theage  of  60,  a  citizen  ^remem- 
bered with  gratitude  by  toe  people  of  Dalton  and  Berkshire,  and  with  honor  by  all.  Pie 
was  a  son  of  Stephen,  son  oi  Benjamin,  son  of  Stephen,  son  of  Henry  Crane,  who  came 
from  England  to  Milton  (then  Dorchester),  Mass.,  in  164S  or  1649.  H.  R.  S. 

Genealogy  of  the  De  Veaux  Family.     Introducing  the  Numerous  Forms  of  Spelling 

the  Name  bv  various  Branches  and  Generations  in  the  past  Eleven  Hunureu  \  ears. 

By  Thomas' F.  De  Yoe.     [New  York.]  1SS5.     Svo,  pp.  302. 

The  author  of  this  volume  is  not  unknown  to  students  who  are  devoted  to  the  history 

of  this  city.      His  well-earned  reputation  will  lend  interest  to  this  effort  in  the  held  ot 

New  York  family  historv.     The  De  Veaux  family  was  of  that  interesting  class  known  as 

Huguenot,  and  was  first  here  represented  bv  Frederick  De  Ycu,  who  is  said  to  have  been 

born  in  Am  is,  near  Rochelle,  in  France.     At  the  time  of  his  arrival  in  New  Amsterdam 

he  was  a  widower.     It  is  recorded  in  the  Dutch  Church  that  he,  as  such,  married  on  the 

24th  of  June.    1677.  Hester  Tourneurs,  a  young  damsel  of  New  Haerlem,  who  was  a 

daughter  of  Daniel  Tourneur.     They  had  issue  thirteen  children.     This  work  is  devoted 

to  tracing  carefully  their  descendants.     The  author's  method  of  notation  is  obscure  and 

faultv,  and  the  smallness  of  the  enumeration  figure  is  in  marked  contrast  with  toe  clear 


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